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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award given by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) and Barbara Kingsolver to a U.S. citizen for a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice.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 prize awards the debut writer a cash award of US$25,000. 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.
Author Zadie Smith is this year’s winner of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, The post Zadie Smith to receive PEN America literary service award ...
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature; PEN Emerging Writers Awards; PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing; PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants; PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award; PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
One honoree, Paul Simon, consoled with words and music. Simon, this year's winner of PEN's Literary Service Award, brought an acoustic guitar to the stage, and performed a gentle, even fragile version of his 1973 classic about a generation's strife and exhaustion, “American Tune.”
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work) PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color) PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation; Poets' Prize; Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers; Publishing Innovation Award – ebooks and related technology; Pulitzer ...
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.