2002 Literary Awards Winners

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Marie Arana, American Chica (Dial)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder (Pantheon)

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Lori Aurelia Williams

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist
Maria Irene Fornes

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Tony Kushner

PEN Translation Prize
Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Viking)

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Anne Twitty, Islandia by Maria Negroni (Station Hill)

PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry
Frederick Seidel

PEN/Nabokov Award for Fiction
Mario Vargos Llosa

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
David Bromwich, Skeptical Music (University of Chicago)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu (W.W. Norton)
Carolyn Cooke, The Bostons (Mariner)
Matthew Klam, Sam the Cat and other stories (Vintage)

PEN/Open Book Award for a Distinguished Work by an Author of Color
Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly Books)
Luis Francia, Eye of the Fish (Kaya Press)
Joy Harjo, A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Victor LaValle, Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories (Vintage Books)
Nelly Rosario, Song of the Water Saints (Pantheon Books)