2007 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Philip Roth PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turning Machines (Knopf) Finalists Tony D’Souza, Whiteman (Harcourt) Katherine Min, Secondhand World (Knopf) PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction James… More
2008 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Nabokov Award for FictionCynthia Ozick, What Happened to the Baby PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeDalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)Finalists:Joshua Ferris, Then We Come to an End (Little, Brown, & Co.) Alex Mindt, The… More
2009 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Nabokov AwardPhilip RothPEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for WritersDonald Ray Pollock, KnockemstiffPEN/Saul Bellow AwardCormac McCarthyPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American… More
2010 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizePaul Harding, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press)PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American FictionDon DeLilloPEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-CareerSusan ChoiPEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for… More
Good Kings, Bad Kings
One thing I didn’t remember to think about is nothing never happens around here. Some cars drove by, and maybe the drivers looked at me? But they didn’t look… More
Burning Ants
My brother Credence says people who leave are deluding themselves about what’s out there. I just think they’re cowards. Mr. Tofu Scramble says I should go anyway, that it’s… More
Selected Poems of Hester Knibbe
There you sit / in the same skirt in which, waters ago, / you boarded the ship, but the dance / has drained from your feet. More
On Translating Hester Knibbe
There were openly false statements, lies that gave way to truths. There was often a little something indigestible in the poems, something to puzzle over, and this was what… More
Announcing the 2012 PEN Literary Awards Recipients
We are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2012 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. More
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