PEN America and Jean Stein to Honor Groundbreaking Literature with New Awards
$75,000 Prize to be Awarded to a Single Writer for Originality and Impact More
Bingham Prize Winner Jack Livings on Imagining China
But the award-winning short story collection The Dog marks a different type of literature about China. It’s a series of fictional short stories set in China but written by… More
PEN Announces Literary Award Winners
This morning, PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. The annual awards, which total more than $150,000, honor emerging and established writers in seventeen… More
Griswold, Howe, and Jones among recipients for 2015 PEN Literary Awards
NEW YORK— PEN American Center today announced the winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the recipients are Eliza Griswold, winner of the prestigious PEN Translation Prize for… More
2015 PEN Longlists Revealed
PEN American Center announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Finalists include Teju Cole, National Book Award winner Phil Klay, journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, and Claudia Rankine, who… More
Phil Klay, Leslie Jamison among nominees for awards given by PEN American Center
National Book Award winner Phil Klay and the author of Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, Cynthia Bond, are among the nominees on the longlist of awards handed out… More
Klay, Rankine and Bond nominated for PEN awards
The PEN American Center today announced nominees for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the 89 titles are Phil Klay’s “Redeployment,” a National Book Award winner, Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen:… More
PEN Mexico Announces 2015 PEN Awards
Mexico City – PEN Mexico has awarded its 2015 PEN Awards to Elena Poniatowska, Darío Ramírez, Federico Mastrogiovanni, Pablo Ferri, and an anonymous Aristegui News reporter, in recognition of… More
How to Win at Picking a Diverse Judging Panel: PEN Literary Awards
It should be no surprise if you’ve been reading Book Riot that we care about diversity in our bookish entities — libraries, publishing houses, foundations, awards, trade shows, etc.… More