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PEN/O.Henry 2009 Prize Stories

For the first time ever Anchor Books and PEN American Center are partnering with this year's PEN/O.Henry 2009 Prize Stories. As The New York Times notes, this partnership is historic for a number of reasons, not the least of it is that it marks the first time PEN has ever honored the short story . . .  [More]

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For over 50 years, PEN American Center has honored some of the most outstanding voices in literature, including: Edward Albee • Meena Alexander • Peter Cole • Annie Dillard • Robert Fagles • Stanley Fish • Maria Irene Fornes • Paula Fox • Luis Francia • Philip Gabriel • Mavis Gallant • William H. Gass • Philip Gourevitch • Linda Gregg • Edith Grossman • Will Heinrich • Adam Hochschild • Edmund Keeley  • Tony Kushner • Arthur Miller • Harryette Mullen • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Martha Nussbaum • Cynthia Ozick • Suzan-Lori Parks • Willie Perdomo • Caryl Phillips • Robert Pinsky • Gregory Rabassa  • Alastair Reid • Marilynne Robinson • Philip Roth • Jonathan Safran Foer • Wallace Shawn • Yerra Sugarman • Anthony Swofford • Monique Truong • Jennifer Tseng • Maria Vargos Llosa • Richard Wilbur • C.K. Williams • Franz Wright • Richard Zenith
2010 AWARDS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Starting September 1, PEN will be accepting submissions for the following awards:

PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
To a fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($10,000)
To a distinguished biography published in the United States.

Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama ($7,500)
Honors a Grand Master of American Theater as well as an outstanding new voice.

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry  ($5,000)
To an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000)
To a writer of children or young-adult fiction in financial need, who has published at least two books.

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000)
For book-length translations of poetry into English.

PEN Translation Prize ($3,000)
For book-length translations from any language into English.

Translation Fund Grants ($2,000–$3,000)
To support the translation of book-length works that have not previously appeared in English.

Beyond Margins Awards ($1,000)
Honors books by writers of color published in the U.S.

WORK FROM RECENT WINNERS

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Winner of the 2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction.

What Happened to the Baby? by Cynthia Ozick 

Winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Award for a lifetime of consummate craftsmanship and enduring originality.

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll

Winner of the 2009 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for a distinguished book of nonfiction.

Trading Words by Kimiko Hahn

Winner of the 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

Roberto Bolaño: 2666 translated by Natasha Wimmer

Winner of the 2009 PEN Translation Prize.

>> See the complete archive of past Literary Awards winners

2009 LITERARY AWARDS

Billy Collins hosts the 2009 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony


AUDIO & PHOTOS
Find audio and photos from the event

EXCERPTS
Read work from the 2009 Literary Awards winners


 
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