Adriana E. Ramírez takes first annual $10,000 PEN/Fusion Prize for “Dead Boys”
NEW YORK—Emcee and author James Hannaham presented the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize to Adriana E. Ramírez of Pittsburgh for her manuscript Dead Boys at the annual PEN Literary Awards… More
PEN Awards Jack Livings $25,000 Bingham Prize For “The Dog”
Claudia Rankine, Ian Buruma Take Other Top Prizes in Live Announcement at New York CeremonyNEW YORK— PEN American Center named Jack Livings winner of the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham… More
2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize: An Interview with the Finalists
To get a better idea of the writers behind the books, we asked each of the finalists of the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize four questions addressing inspiration, routine,… More
Love Me Back
At ten a.m. I hadn’t come down even after smoking a joint and taking five sleeping pills. In the mirror I had no iris, I was all hole, falling… More
Retrospective
Boaz understood that while he respected Eva’s utter ease with herself—the woman had lost her entire family at an even younger age than Boaz but refused to act like… More
Mountain of Swords, Sea of Fire
Since the crackdown he’d been living like a man in a diving bell, waiting for his air hose to be severed at the surface. Colleagues had been taken away… 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
Griswold, Howe, and Jones among recipients for 2015 PEN Literary Awards
NEW YORK— PEN American Center today announced the winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the recipients are Eliza Griswold, winner of the prestigious PEN Translation Prize for… More