WinnerSarah Ruhl, whose plays include The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn award, 2004, finalist for Pulitzer Prize, 2005), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Demeter in the City (nominated for an… More

WinnerRichard Nelson, best known for his plays Goodnight Children Everywhere, Some American Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors, Conversations in Tusculum, Madame Melville, The General From America, Frank’s Home, New England,… More

WinnerKimiko HahnThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the eighth time in 2008. The award is given to a poet… More

WinnerDalia Sofer for her novel The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories published… More

WinnerCynthia OzickThe PEN/Nabokov Award celebrates the accomplishments of a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents achievement in a variety of literary… More

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

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

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

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