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PEN/Nora Magid Award ($2,500)
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The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, 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. Candidates for the biennial $2,500 award include current editors-in-chief, literary editors, and "back-of-the-book" editors of serious general interest magazines, book reviews, or literary reviews and quarterlies, whose intellectual discernment and wide range of interests recall the late PEN member Nora Magid, who was for many years the literary editor of The Reporter.
2007 judges: Barbara Ascher, Robert Polito, and Melanie Thernstrom
The 2007 PEN Literary Awards will presented in New York on the evening
of Monday, May 21 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.
For more information contact Nick Burd: (212) 334-1660, ext. 108, nick@pen.org
Please click here for more information on this award.
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2007 Awardee
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This year’s PEN/Nora Magid Award will go to Bradford Morrow, editor of Conjunctions.
From
the judges’ citation: “We were astonished to discover that Bradford
Morrow has not already won this award, after 25 years of editing almost
by himself one of our most distinctive and valuable literary magazines.
We saw this year as a chance to correct that oversight. The range of
writers he publishes (and often discovers) is a sort of who's who of
20th/21st century serious writing, and he's found a way to keep
reinventing it. The fiction, poetry, criticism, drama, and art is
sometimes described as 'experimental,' but we would also say
innovative, daring, indispensable, and beautiful. Our best writers
manifestly trust Bradford Morrow with their most ambitious work, and we
can think of no higher praise for a literary magazine, or its editor.”
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