2008 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerTheresa Nelson, author of the forthcoming novel Julia Delaney: The American Version, to be published by Atheneum BooksThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship established in 2001, provides an l/author… More
2008 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
WinnerJanet Malcolm for her book Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished biography possessing notable literary… More
2008 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerMargaret Jull Costa for her translation from the Portuguese of The Maias (New Directions) by Eça de QueirósThe PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language… More
2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerRosmarie Waldrop for her translation from the German of Lingos I-IX (Burning Deck Press) by Ulf StolterfohtThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000) recognizes book-length translations of poetry… More
2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnersWill Eno and Adam RappRead excerpts from Middletown (Will Eno) and Through the Yellow Hour (Adam Rapp)The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright… More
2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist
WinnerChristopher DurangThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in… More
2012 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award
WinnerChristopher Hitchens, Arguably (Twelve)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner receives a cash award… More
[the air and its quality, the soft moon which we notice]
your friends gathered around the / record player singing guthrie tunes // too wistful for a work nite / or just wistful enough to fight as a result of… More
Bringer of Fire
“Bugs? You got me for fucking bugs?!” He savagely backhanded me and I fell to the floor, the taste of copper in my mouth. Standing over me he screamed… More