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Award Description Founded Status Annual Literary Awards [16] [17]: Awards presented in 12 categories: Lifetime Achievement, Award of Honor, Freedom to Write, First Amendment, Award of Merit, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Research Nonfiction, Poetry, Children's and Young Adult Literature, Translation, Journalism, Drama, Teleplay, Screenplay, UC Press Exceptional First Book Award.
The PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, formerly known as the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, is a biennial award given by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) and Barbara Kingsolver to a U.S. citizen for a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice.
The award of $75,000 is one of the richest prizes given by the PEN American Center. It was first awarded in 2017. The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in more than 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes. [1]
PEN Center USA's annual awards program, established in 1982, is a unique, regional competition that recognizes literary excellence in eleven categories: fiction, creative nonfiction, research nonfiction, poetry, children's literature, graphic literature, translation, journalism, drama, teleplay, and screenplay.
Previous winners of the PEN/Faulkner award include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett and Deesha Philyaw. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. People.
The Gregory Kolovakos Award [27] was a literary award given every three years by PEN American Center to a U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic "whose work, in meeting the challenge of cultural difference, extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience". It was ...
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize was established in memory of Robert W. Bingham, who died in 1999 at the age of 33, to commemorate his support of young writers, his love of literature, and his contribution to literary fiction. [1] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the ...
The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to honor a "distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year." [1] The award carries a $5,000 prize. The award was established by Rodman L. Drake.