PEN ANNOUNCES 2005 LITERARY AWARD RECIPIENTS
Translators, Memoirists, Nonfiction Writers, Playwrights, Children's Book
Writers, Editors to be Honored at Lincoln Center on May 23th
Salman Rushdie, President of PEN American Center, the national association of literary writers, and Benjamin Taylor, Chair of the PEN Awards Committee, have announced the recipients of the 2005 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the United States. The recipients of each award were determined by distinguished panels of judges all of whom are writers, editors, translators, poets, or playwrights themselves. The PEN awards will be presented in New York on the evening of Monday, May 23, at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. The Master of Ceremonies will be Edward Hirsch. Members of the press are welcome to attend. Prior to the ceremony, the judges, finalists, and honorees will be available beginning at 5:30 PM. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 PM.
PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, which was founded in 1921 to advance the cause of literature and reading and to defend free expression around the world. PEN American Center has a membership of over 2,800 writers, editors, and translators. In addition to campaigning on behalf of writers threatened for exercising their expressive freedom, PEN sends writers to schools and community centers around the country to encourage the reading and writing of literature, administers literary prizes, sponsors public literary arts performances and forums on current issues, and offers grants and loans to writers facing financial emergencies and those suffering from AIDS.
For more information on the PEN Literary Awards, Judges' citations, or to arrange interviews with award recipients, contact: Peter G. Meyer – PEN American Center –ª212-334-1660 x 108 – e-mail: peter@pen.org
http://www.pen.org
2005 PEN LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama
Wallace Shawn
Dael Orleandersmith
The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Winner)
A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen (Finalist)
Euclid in the Rain Forest by Joseph Mazur (Finalist)
The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (Winner)
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon (Finalist)
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan (Finalist)
The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Fatelessness by Imre Kertsz, translated by Tim Wilkinson (Winner)
Green Wheat by Colette, translated by Zack Rogow (Finalist)
The Cello Player by Michael Kurger, translated by Andrew Shields (Finalist)
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Lightduress by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris (Winner)
Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied (Finalist)
Writing Through: Translations and Variations by Various Authors, translated by Jerome Rothenberg (Finalist)
The PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry
Forms of Gone by Yerra Sugarman (Winner)
The PEN/Nora Magid Award
Southwest Review, edited by Willard Spiegleman (Winner)
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Amanda Jenkins (Winner)
The PEN Jerard Fund Award
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen (Winner)
Salman Rushdie, President of PEN American Center, the national association of literary writers, and Benjamin Taylor, Chair of the PEN Awards Committee, have announced the recipients of the 2005 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the United States. The recipients of each award were determined by distinguished panels of judges all of whom are writers, editors, translators, poets, or playwrights themselves. The PEN awards will be presented in New York on the evening of Monday, May 23, at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. The Master of Ceremonies will be Edward Hirsch. Members of the press are welcome to attend. Prior to the ceremony, the judges, finalists, and honorees will be available beginning at 5:30 PM. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 PM.
PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, which was founded in 1921 to advance the cause of literature and reading and to defend free expression around the world. PEN American Center has a membership of over 2,800 writers, editors, and translators. In addition to campaigning on behalf of writers threatened for exercising their expressive freedom, PEN sends writers to schools and community centers around the country to encourage the reading and writing of literature, administers literary prizes, sponsors public literary arts performances and forums on current issues, and offers grants and loans to writers facing financial emergencies and those suffering from AIDS.
For more information on the PEN Literary Awards, Judges' citations, or to arrange interviews with award recipients, contact: Peter G. Meyer – PEN American Center –ª212-334-1660 x 108 – e-mail: peter@pen.org
http://www.pen.org
2005 PEN LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama
Wallace Shawn
Dael Orleandersmith
The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
The End of Faith by Sam Harris (Winner)
A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen (Finalist)
Euclid in the Rain Forest by Joseph Mazur (Finalist)
The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (Winner)
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon (Finalist)
Blood Horses by John Jeremiah Sullivan (Finalist)
The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Fatelessness by Imre Kertsz, translated by Tim Wilkinson (Winner)
Green Wheat by Colette, translated by Zack Rogow (Finalist)
The Cello Player by Michael Kurger, translated by Andrew Shields (Finalist)
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Lightduress by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris (Winner)
Butterfly Valley: A Requiem by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied (Finalist)
Writing Through: Translations and Variations by Various Authors, translated by Jerome Rothenberg (Finalist)
The PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry
Forms of Gone by Yerra Sugarman (Winner)
The PEN/Nora Magid Award
Southwest Review, edited by Willard Spiegleman (Winner)
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Amanda Jenkins (Winner)
The PEN Jerard Fund Award
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen (Winner)
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