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2004 PEN AMERICAN CENTER LITERARY AWARDS WINNERS

PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
Jonathan Safron Foer
Will Heinrich
Monique Truong

The PEN/Nabokov Award
Mavis Gallant

The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama
Lanford Wilson
Lynn Nottage

The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Robert Pinsky

The Gregory Kolovakos Awards
Coloa Franzen
Robert M. Laughlin
Alaxander Talyor

The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Deborah Wiles

The PEN Award for the Art of the Essay
Stewart Justman, Seeds of Mortality

Finalists
• Floyd Skloot, In the Shadow of Memory
• Alec Wilkinson, Mr. Apology

The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Finalists
• Sheri Fink, War Hospital
• Earl Swift, Where They Lay

The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead

Finalists
• Mary Cimarolli, The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
• Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Margaret Sayers Peden, Sepharad by Antonio Mu๑oz Molina

Finalists
• Linda Coverdale, Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot
• Hillel Halkin, The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Peter Cole, J'Accuse by Aharon Shabtai

Finalists
• Munir Akash and Carolyn Forch้ with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein(editing and translation), Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish
• Jen Hofer, Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women
• Joshua Beckman and Tomaz Salamun, Poker by Tomaz Salamun, translated by and the author


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