PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama
Wallace Shawn
Dael Orlandersmith


PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
The End of Faith by Sam Harris

Runners Up:
A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen
Euclid in the Rain Forest by Joseph Mazur


PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

Runners Up:
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan


The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
Translated by Tim Wilkinson

Runners Up:
Green Wheat by Colette
Translated by Zack Rogow

The Cello Player by Michael Kurger
Translated by Andrew Shields


PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Lightduress by Paul Celan
Translated by Pierre Joris

Runners Up:
Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen
Translated by Susanna Nied

Writing Through: Translations and Variations by Various Authors
Translated by Jerome Rothenberg


PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry
Yerra Sugarman for Forms of Gone


PEN/Nora Magid Award
Willard Spiegelman, editor of Southwest Review


PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Amanda Jenkins


PEN Jerard Fund Award
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen

Beyond Margins Award Winner
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele

Raquel Cepeda, ed: And It Don’t Stop:The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years.

Inheritance  by Lan Samantha Chang:

Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant  by Lolita Hernandez

The Temperature of This Water by Ishle Yi Park:


PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients

Chris Andrews: Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño. Spanish.

Rachel Tzvia Back: Selected Poetry of Lea Goldberg. Hebrew.

Susan Bernofsky:  The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck. German

Heather Cleary: The Persuasion of Days by Olivero Girondo. Spanish.

Karen Emmerich: Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris. Greek.

Jason Grunebaum: The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash. Hindi

Deborah Hoffman: Children of the Gulag, ed. Semen Samuilovich Vilenskii. Russian.

Elizabeth Macklin: Meanwhile, Take My Hand: Poems by Kirmen Uribe. Basque

Susanna Nied: It by Inger Christensen. Danish

Laima Sruoginis: My Voices Betrays Me by Vanda Juknaite. Lithuanian

George Szirtes: War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Hungarian

Paul Vincent: Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon. Dutch.

Susan Wilf:  Disastrous Letters by Kang Zhengguo. Chinese