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PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction

The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature. The award carries a stipend of $25,000.

Past winners: Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo.

Eligibility and Nominations

The PEN/Saul Bellow Award will be judged by a panel of three PEN Members or similarly qualified persons and will be administered by internal nomination only.

For more information, please contact awards@pen.org or (212) 334-1660, ext 126.

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