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‘Literature lasts’: Erika Dickerson-Despenza basks in career achievement award

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By: Lisa Tolin | March 6, 2023

For Erika Dickerson-Despenza, receiving the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award meant something special – an honor for words on the page. More

Yiyun Li - 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award nominee

The 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Winners

PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards winners. More

Larissa Fasthorse at the 2019 Awards Ceremony

Larissa FastHorse at the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony

TranscriptFebruary 26, 2019

Larissa FastHorse was awarded the PEN/Laura Pels Award at the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony. Watch her speech and read the transcript. More

headshots of the 2019 Career Achievement Honorees

PEN America to Honor Sandra Cisneros for Achievement in International Literature at February 26 Ceremony In New York

Press ReleaseFebruary 5, 2019

"A focus on cross-cultural dialogue, translation, and international literature has long been at the heart of PEN America's Literary Awards program, and it is especially fitting that a binational… More

Scene from Suzan-Lori Parks’s Play “Topdog/Underdog”

MultimediaMarch 29, 2017

Actors Matthew J. Harris and Tyrone Mitchell Henderson perform a scene from playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' play "Topdog/Underdog". More

David Mamet and Theresa Rebeck Are PEN Award Recipients

September 24, 2010

Among recipients of 2010 PEN Literary Awards are playwrights David Mamet and Theresa Rebeck, PEN American Center announced. More

David Mamet, Theresa Rebeck, et al. Win PEN Awards

September 23, 2010

David Mamet has won the PEN American Center's 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a Master American Dramatist and Theresa Rebeck has won the 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award… More

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