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1999 PEN AMERICAN CENTER LITERARY AWARDS WINNERS
Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Ted Solotaroff, Truth Comes in Blows (Norton)

Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Non-Fiction
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tommorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Laura Pel Foundation/ For a Master American Dramatist
Edward Albee

Laura Pel Foundation/ For an American Playwright in mid-career
Paula Vogel

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Michael Hofmann, The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth (St. Martin's)

Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Nick Flynn, Some Ether

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa & Co (Grove)

Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay
Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (Houghton Mifflin)
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