Home > 2005 Literary Awards Winners 2005 LITERARY AWARDS WINNERS The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama Wallace Shawn Dael Orlandersmith The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction The End of Faith by Sam Harris Finalists: A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen Euclid in the Rain Forest by Joseph Mazur The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn Finalists: 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 Finalists: Green Wheat by Colette Translated by Zack Rogow The Cello Player by Michael Kurger Translated by Andrew Shields The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Lightduress by Paul Celan Translated by Pierre Joris Finalists: Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen Translated by Susanna Nied Writing Through: Translations and Variations by Various Authors Translated by Jerome Rothenberg The PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry Forms of Gone by Yerra Sugarman The PEN/Nora Magid Award Southwest Review, edited by Willard Spiegelman The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship Amanda Jenkins The PEN Jerard Fund Award Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen 2005 BEYOND MARGINS AWARDS WINNERS Faith Adiele: Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun. (Biography/memoir. W.W. Norton & Co.) Raquel Cepeda, ed: And It Don’t Stop:The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years. (Anthology. Faber & Faber/FSG.) Lan Samantha Chang: Inheritance. (Novel. W.W. Norton & Co.) Lolita Hernandez: Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant. (Short stories.Coffee House Press.) Ishle Yi Park: The Temperature of This Water. (Poetry and prose. Kaya Press). 2005 PEN TRANSLATION FUND GRANT RECIPIENTS Chris Andrews: Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño. Spanish. (Harvill/New Directions)  Rachel Tzvia Back: Selected Poetry of Lea Goldberg. Hebrew. (Toby Press) Susan Bernofsky:  The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck. German. (New Directions) Heather Cleary: The Persuasion of Days by Olivero Girondo. Spanish. (No publisher) Karen Emmerich: Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris. Greek. (No publisher) Jason Grunebaum: The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash. Hindi. (No publisher) Deborah Hoffman: Children of the Gulag, ed. Semen Samuilovich Vilenskii. Russian. (No publisher) Elizabeth Macklin: Meanwhile, Take My Hand: Poems by Kirmen Uribe. Basque. (No publisher) Susanna Nied: It by Inger Christensen. Danish. (New Directions) Laima Sruoginis: My Voices Betrays Me by Vanda Juknaite. Lithuanian.  (East European Monographs, Columbia University Press) George Szirtes: War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Hungarian. (New Directions) Paul Vincent: Summer in Termuren by Louis Paul Boon. Dutch. (Dalkey Archive) Susan Wilf:  Disastrous Letters by Kang Zhengguo. Chinese (No publisher) Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2010 PEN American Center. All rights reserved.