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2007 PEN LITERARY AWARDS
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May 21, 2007 | Walter Reade Theater | New York City
PEN American Center President Francine Prose and PEN Board member Michael Cunningham co-host the 2007 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony at Lincoln Center.
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Copyright © 2007 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center
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 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction ($40,000)
To Philip Roth
This award 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.
Listen to the award presentation (4:29)
>> Read Philip Roth's acceptance speech
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 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers ($35,000)
To Janna Levin
For her novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf)
The fellowship honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories published in 2006—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.
Finalists: Tony D’Souza for Whiteman (Harcourt) and Katherine Min for Secondhand World (Knopf)
Listen to the award presentation (6:44) |
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PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ($10,000)
To James Carroll
For his book House of War (Houghton Mifflin)
The biennial award is given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years.
Finalists: Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Knopf) and Thomas E. Ricks for Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (The Penguin Press)
Listen to the award presentation (5:47) |
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 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama
To a master American dramatist: A.R. Gurney
To an American playwright in mid-career: Naomi Iizuka
The awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in the rich and striking language of their work.
Listen to the award presentation (6:00) |
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 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000)
To Peter Covino
For his poetry collection Cut Off the Ears of Winter (New Issues)
The award is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes the high literary
character of the published work to date of a new and emerging American
poet of any age and the promise of further literary achievement.
Listen to the award presentation (3:29) |
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 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000)
To Diane Les Becquets
For her forthcoming novel Genesis, to be published by Bloomsbury
The fellowship provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to
make possible an extended period of time to complete a book-length
work-in-progress, and to assist a writer at a crucial moment in his or
her career when monetary support is particularly needed.
Listen to the award presentation (5:30)
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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000)
To David Hinton
For his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions)
The award recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into
English published in the previous calendar year and is judged by a
single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee.
Finalists: James Reidel for his translation from the German of In Hora Mortis/Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems by Thomas Bernhard (Princeton University Press) and Paul Schmidt for his translation from the Russian of The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Various Authors (NYRB Classics)
Listen to the award presentation (5:36)
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PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize ($3,000)
To Sandra Smith
For her translation from the French of Suite Française (Knopf) by Irène Némirovsky
The award goes to book-length translations from any language into English; established in 1963 by the Book-of-the-Month Club in recognition of the art of the literary translator—the first American award to do so.
Finalists: Carol Brown Janeway for her translation from the German of Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (Pantheon) and Shaun Whiteside for his translation from the Italian of 54 by Wu Ming (Harcourt)
Listen to the award presentation (4:58)
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 PEN/Nora Magid Award ($2,500)
To Bradford Morrow
Editor of Conjunctions
The biennial award honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits.
Listen to the award presentation (2:53)
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PEN Translation Fund Winners
Susan Bernofsky for her translation from the German of Robert Walser’s 1908 novel The Assistant (New Directions)
Jennifer Hayashida for her translation from the Swedish of Clockwork of Flowers: Explanations and Poems by Fredrik Nyberg (no publisher)
Wen Huang for his translation from the Chinese of Farewell to Jiabiangou, a collection of short stories by Yang Xianhui (no publisher)
Ha-yun Jung for her translation from the Korean of A Lone Room, a novel by Shin Kyong-sook (no publisher)
Sara Khalili for her translation from the Farsi of Seasons of Purgatory, a selection of short stories by Shahriar Mandanipour (no publisher)
Paul Olchváry for his translation from the Hungarian of The Ninth, a novel by Ferenc Barnás (no publisher)
Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine) for his translation from the classical Chinese of an anthology of the poems of Wei Ying-wu (Copper Canyon Press)
Katherine Silver for her translation from the Spanish of Senselessness by Salvadoran/Honduran Horacio Castellanos Moya (New Directions)
Christopher Southward for his translation from the Japanese of Acacia, short stories by Hitonari Tsuji (no publisher)
Alyson Waters for her translation from the French of The Colors of Infamy, a novel by Albert Cossery (no publisher)
Listen to the award presentation (8:49)
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PEN/Beyond Margins Awards ($1,000)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
For her novel Half of a Yellow Sun
Ernest Hardy
For his essay collection Blood Beats, Vol. 1
Harryette Mullen
For her poetry anthology, Recyclopedia
Alberto Ríos
For his poetry collection, Theater of Night
Listen to the award presentation (0:53) |
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75x72.jpg) PEN Prison Writing Awards
Fiction: Clifford Barnes (Rosharon, TX)
"Confessions of a Jack-Off Artist"
Poetry: Steven Bulleit (Ontario, OR)
"Doing Time"
Nonfiction: J.E. Wantz (Salem, OR)
"Feeling(s) Cheated"
Memoir: Christina MacNaughton (Address unknown)
"Just Another Death"
Drama: Keith Sanders (Rosharon, TX)
"A Time to Forget"
Listen to the award presentation (3:46)
>> Click here to visit the complete winners archive |
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