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/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