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The 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. The award is made possible by a grant from PEN member
Gerald Weales.
2005 Judges: David Bromwich, Richard Lingeman and Jim Shepard
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2005 Winner
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Presented by Jim Shepard
Willard Spiegelman: Southwest Review
The Southwest Review has
emerged in the last twenty years as one of the best literary
quarterlies in the United States. Poetry and fiction, memoirs and
criticism, appear side by side in its pages, in balanced proportions
linked only by the generous intelligence of the editor, Willard
Spiegelman. This is a magazine full of discoveries, and free of
distraction by the chatter of schools and sects. It seems impartially
welcoming both toward luminous and unfamiliar names, so long as the
writing is genuine. The design is clean, understated, and attractive.
The Southwest Review is
admirable, in short, for the individual way in which it performs an
indispensable function. It exemplifies a standard of judgment favorable
to imagination.
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