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2006 PEN LITERARY AWARDS
2006 PEN LITERARY AWARDS PEN/Nabokov Award

Philip Roth
gregg PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Linda Gregg
grossman Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

Edith Grossman
bingham PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers

We’re In Trouble by Christopher Coake

Finalists:
God Lives in St. Petersburg: And Other Stories by Tom Bissell

Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

Philip Gabriel for his translation of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Finalists:
Flora Drew for her translation of The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian

Michael Hofmann for his translation of Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm
poetry in trans PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Wilson Baldridge for his translation of Recumbents by Michel Deguy

Finalists:
Clayton Eshleman for his translation of Conductors of the Pit by Various Authors

Thomas Meyer for his translation of Daode Jing by Laozi
naylor PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship

Barbara Shoup, author of Everything You Want
pels The Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama

Stephen Adly Guirgis
Adrienne Kennedy
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction

Amy Butler Greenfield: A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

Marjorie Williams: The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate

Finalists:

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past With Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee
art of mem PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir

Gregory Rabassa: If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents

Finalists:
Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples by Dan Hofstadter

Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
Beyond Margins Literary Awards

Richard Blanco for Directions to the Beach of the Dead

Andrew Lam for Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

Ed-Bok Lee for Real Karaoke People

Caryl Phillips for Dancing in the Dark

Jennifer Tseng for The Man With My Face
PEN Translation Fund Grants

Johannes Goransson for his translation from the Finland-Swedish of The Collected Poems of Henry Parland

Victoria Haggblom for her translation from the Swedish of To Mervas, a novel by Elizabeth Rynell

Nicky Harman for her translation from the Chinese of Striking Root, a novel by Han Dong

Ann L. Huss for her translation from the Chinese of Beauty, a novel by Ge Fei

Sawako Nakayasu for her translation from the Japanese of For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut, poems by Takashi Hiraide

Tegan Raleigh for her translation from the French of The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry, a novel by Assia Djebar

Constantine Rusanov for his translation from the Lithuanian of The Junction, poems by Tomas Venclova

Stepan S. Simek for his translation from the Czech of Theremin and Three Sisters 2002.CZ, plays by Petr Zelenka

Alan Trei and Inna Feldbach for their translation from the Estonian of Robber’s Rise (Book One of The Truth and Justice Trilogy), a novel by Anton Hansen Tammsaare
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