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2000 PEN AMERICAN CENTER LITERARY AWARDS WINNERS
Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Jeffery Smith, Where the Roots Reach for Water (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Non-Fiction
Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files (Dial)

Laura Pel Foundation/ For a Master American Dramatist
Horton Foote

Laura Pel Foundation/ For an American Playwright in mid-career
Suzan-Lori Parks

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Richard Sieburth, Selected Writings by Gerard De Nerval (Penguin)

Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Edmund Keeley

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
James Brasfield, The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)

Voelker Award for Poetry
Heather McHugh

Nabokov Award
William Gass

Amazon.com Short Story Award
Marlene Reed Wetzel

Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts
Anne Hollander

Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (Knopf)

Renato Poggioli Translation Award
Wendell Ricketts, La Segretaria and other one act plays by Natalia Ginzburg
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