PEN Awards

PEN Award winners were announced today. New to this year's award categories: PEN Emerging Writers Award, the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Congratulations to all winners.


PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Susanna Daniel (Stiltsville)
Danielle Evans (Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self)

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner)

PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
Aleksander Hemon

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Robert Perkinson, Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books)

PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Marcus Gardley

PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a Master American Dramatist
David Henry Hwang

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press)

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
George Dohrmann, Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books)

PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Roger Angell

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown and Company)

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Ishion Hutchinson, Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.)

PEN/Nora Magid Award
Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of A Public Space

PEN Open Book Award
Manu Joseph, Serious Men (W.W. Norton & Company)

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Khaled Mattawa, Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters Series)

PEN Translation Prize
Ibrahim Muhawi, Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books)

PEN Emerging Writers Awards
Smith Henderson (Fiction)
David Stuart MacLean (Nonfiction)
Adam Day (Poetry)