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
Bangladeshi Publisher of Works by Secular Authors Honored with US Prize
A Bangladeshi publisher of secular books and works by slain writers, which was attacked by suspected Islamic extremists last year, has been recognized with an award for courage from… More
Mia Alvar Wins $25,000 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Story Collection ‘In the Country’
Other winners at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rick Barot, and Lauren Redniss. More
San Diego reporter Jean Guerrero takes $10,000 PEN/FUSION Prize for “Crux”
"Crux" is a cross-border memoir about a Guerrero's quest to understand her father, an immigrant from Mexico she grew up believing was schizophrenic. More
Four Questions for Katrina Dodson, Winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize
I’ve thought often about how translation requires extreme humility, to be able to recede into the shadows and let one’s style be subsumed by another’s. Translators work hard not… More
Four Questions for Sawako Nakayasu, Winner of the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
"The Sagawa book presented a special challenge, which was that the Modernist sensibility and language, especially in this particular Japanese context, was unlike anything I had ever seen, and… More
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
He sounded older, twenty at least. I was afraid if we spoke again he would sound older still, that by month’s end he would have surpassed me, his… More
The Sympathizer
The month in question was April, the cruelest month. It was the month in which a war that had run on for a very long time would lose its… More
A Contract Overseas
With Andoy unemployed and my mother scraping to feed us, I couldn't go straight to college, even with a scholarship. We both spent the next twelve months mopping floors More
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
“What is this talk of happy?” Aunty asked without turning. Then, gently, she added, “You have been in America too long, Mrs. Doctor.” More
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