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May 19:
PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
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The PEN Awards will be presented in New York on the evening of Monday, May 19, at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
Members of the press are welcome to attend.
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PEN LITERARY AWARDS
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Francine Prose, president of PEN American Center, the national association of literary writers, and Elissa Schappell, chair of PEN’s Literary Awards Committee, have announced the recipients of the 2008 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the United States. |
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2008 PEN Award Recipients
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The 2008 recipients were determined by distinguished panels of judges, all of whom are writers, editors, translators, poets, or playwrights themselves. This year’s program will see the conferral of a new award: the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
PEN/Nabokov Award ($20,000)
To Cynthia Ozick
PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
To Dalia Sofer
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($10,000)
To Janet Malcolm for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Pels Foundation Awards for Drama ($7,500)
To Richard Nelson and Sarah Ruhl
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000)
To Theresa Nelson for Julia Delany: The American Version
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry ($5,000)
To Kimiko Hahn
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000)
To Rosmarie Waldrop for Lingos I-IX
PEN Translation Prize ($3,000)
To Margaret Jull Costa for The Maias
Translation Fund Grants ($2,000–$3,000)
>> All recipients
Beyond Margins Awards ($1,000)
TBA
>> Click here to visit the Winners Archive
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