2006 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
WinnerThe 18th annual PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction will be given to both Amy Butler Greenfield for A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color… More
What She Knows
She gathers an empty bottle washed / ashore and tosses it far to sea. / It sinks, fills, becomes ocean, / I see through ages—it settles / by a… More
Kite to Kierkegaard
But there is no wisdom / That needs to be shouted / Whispering it blisters / A capriccio in braille. More
The Destitute
The / ceiling hovers like a heavy mist, / dark and putrid, thick and barbed, / chocking any head held high. More
Chessman’s Lunch
I poke at my salad, / sip water from a plastic cup / my corner fiefdom overrun now by strangers / a compromised rook / removed from the board More
2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
WinnerPeter Covino, author of the poetry collection, Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005), published by New Issues, and a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn AwardThe PEN/Joyce… More
2007 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writers Fellowship
WinnerDiane Les Becquets, author of the forthcoming novel Genesis, to be published by Bloomsbury USAThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure… More
2007 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerDavid Hinton for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) by Wang WeiThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More
2007 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
WinnerSandra Smith for her translation from the French of Suite Française (Knopf) by Irène NémirovskyThe PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English.… More
2007 PEN Translation Fund
WinnersSusan Bernofsky, for her translation from the German of Robert Walser’s 1908 novel The Assistant, the melancholy and mischievously ironic story of a penniless young man who works for… More
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