2010 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerAnne Carson for her translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by EuripidesThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More

2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers

WinnerDonald Ray Pollock for his collection Knockemstiff (Doubleday)The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories published in 2007—represents… More

2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award

WinnerCormac McCarthyThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence,… More

2006 Translation Fund Grants

WinnersJohannes Goransson for his translation from the Finland-Swedish of The Collected Poems of Henry ParlandVictoria Haggblom for her translation from the Swedish of To Mervas, a novel by Elizabeth… More

2006 PEN/Nabokov Award

WinnerPhilip RothThe PEN/Nabokov Award is given to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. The… More

A Day in the Life of a Prisoner

Everyone smoked in the old days, and convicts made picture frames and jewelry boxes out of woven cigarette packaging. People made cardboard shelves and curtains for their cells. It… More

2006 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

WinnerLinda GreggThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the seventh time in 2006. The award is given to a poet… More

2006 Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

WinnerEdith Grossman, who has translated major works by Miguel de Cervantes and Gabriel García MárquezThe Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose… More