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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.
As of 2018, the US$75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is the top award given by PEN America, [29] and among the largest literary prizes in the United States. [30] Among other awards conferred are the $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel, the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Award for a Debut Short Story Collection, and the $10,000 PEN Open Book Award ...
The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is awarded by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) biennially "to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which have been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years.
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 ...
Paul Simon's latest honor places him among public figures well outside the music industry. The 82-year-old Simon is known for such classic songs as “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “The ...
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 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]
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.