Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Winners
PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2021 Literary Awards winners. The winners were announced at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on April 8, 2021. More
The 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Winners
PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards winners. More
2016 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize In the Country: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf) by Mia Alvar PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau/Random House) by Ta-Nehisi Coates PEN/E. O.… 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
2014 Literary Award Winners
View the 2014 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony Program herePEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionGodforsaken Idaho (Little A/New Harvest), Shawn VestalPEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American FictionLouise ErdrichPEN/Bellwether… More
2013 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeSergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity (University of Chicago Press)PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardLeonard Mlodinow, Subliminal (Pantheon) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayRobert Hass,… More
2012 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged FictionSusan Nussbaum for "Good Kings, Bad Kings"PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeVanessa Veselka, Zazen (Red Lemonade) Runner-Up:Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press) PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in… More
1982 Literary Award Winners
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeHiroaki Sato & Burton Watson, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry (Anchor Press/University of Washington Press)PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for TranslationGregory Rabassa More
1985 Literary Award Winners
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeProseHelen R. Lane, The War at the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)PoetrySeamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)PEN/Ralph… More
1986 Literary Award Winners
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Prose Barbara Bray, The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Pantheon) Poetry Dennis Tedlock, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (Simon and Schuster) More
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