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What U.S. Publishers Owe China

In 1962, Chinese President Liu Shaoqi warned Mao Zedong: “History will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalization will… More

2015 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeThe Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by Jack Livings PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New… More

H.G. Adler: A Survivor’s Dual Reverie (video)

Compared by critics to Kafka and Joyce, H. G. Adler is quickly gaining recognition as a key figure in twentieth-century fiction. A panel of writers and journalists came together… More

PEN Announces Literary Award Winners

This morning, PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. The annual awards, which total more than $150,000, honor emerging and established writers in seventeen… More

2015 PEN Literary Award Winners

BOOK AWARDS PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): To an author whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2014—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great… More

Announcing the 2015 PEN Literary Award Winners

It is with great excitement that PEN announces the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. After considerable deliberation, this year's judges have made their final decisions for PEN's… More