The winners of the 2011 PEN Literary Awards were announced Wednesday of last week, and I’m sure that more than a few of you will recognize many of the authors and books honored with these prestigious awards.
What follows is a complete list of the winners:
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award – Siddhartha Mukherjee for “The Emperor of All Maladies.”
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing – Geogre Dohrmann for “Play Their Hearts Out.”
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography – Stacy Schiff for “Cleopatra: A Life.”
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction – Robert Perkinson for “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire”
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation – Khaled Mattawa for “Adonis: Selected Poems.”
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Mark Slouka for “Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations.”
PEN Emerging Writers Awards – Smith Henderson (Fiction), David Stuart MacLean (Nonfiction) and Adam Day (Poetry)
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing – Roger Angell
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry – Ishion Hutchinson for “Far District.”
PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for an American Playwright in Mid-Career and a Master American Dramatist – Marcus Gardley (American Playwright in Mid-Career) and David Henry Hwang (Master American Dramatist)
PEN/Nora Magid Award – Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of “A Public Space.”
PEN Open Book Award – Manu Joseph for “Serious Men.”
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship – Lucy Frank for “Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling”
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize – Susanna Daniel for “Stiltsville” and Danielle Evans for “Before You Suffucate Your Own Fool Self.”
PEN Translation Prize – Ibrahim Muhawi for “Journal of an Ordinary Grief.”
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for Fiction Writer in Mid-Career – Aleksandar Hemon
PEN Translation Fund Grants of $3,000 each were also awarded to Amiri Ayanna, Neil Blackadder, Clarissa Botsford, Steve Bradbury, Annmarie S. Drury, Diane Nemec Ignashev, Chenxin Jiang, Hilary B. Kaplan, Catherine Schelbert, Joel Streicker and Sarah L. Thomas.
In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you read? Which did you like or dislike? Which would you recommend and why? Let us know in the comments section below.
For more information about the books and authors mentioned above as well as the PEN Literary Awards, visit www.pen.org.
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