2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMark Kram, Jr., Like Any Normal Day (St. Martin's Press)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a biographical, investigative, historical, or… More
2013 PEN/Steven Kroll Award
WinnerMichelle Markel, The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau (Eerdmans)The PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing was established in memory of Steven Kroll to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of… More
2013 PEN/Nora Magid Award
WinnersMonika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery of Mother Jones The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed… More
2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
WinnerLeonard Mlodinow, Subliminal (Pantheon)The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Prize celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of… More
2013 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerAmy Goldman Koss, The Intake Office The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make possible an extended period… More
2013 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
WinnerTom Reiss, The Black Count (Broadway Books)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will go to the author of a… More
2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
WinnerKatherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House)The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective… More
2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerMolly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English… More
2013 PEN Open Book Award
WinnersGina Apostol, Gun Dealers' Daughter (W.W. Norton & Co.)Kevin Young, The Grey Album (Graywolf Press)The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic… More
2013 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerDonald O. White for The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen (Overlook Press)The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English. The prize has been supported since… More