PEN American Center inactive awards explained

Awards presented by the PEN American Center (today PEN America) that are no longer active.

The awards are among many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[1]

PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (1987–2015)

The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award[2] was an award that honored writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression.[3] Established in 1987, the award was administered by PEN American Center and underwritten by PEN trustee Barbara Goldsmith. The last award was in 2015; its successor is PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, established in 2016 and honoring writers who were imprisoned for their work.

Winners

PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner!Year!Winner!Country !Ref.
1987Soviet Union
South Africa
1988Kenya
Indonesia
1989Ethiopia
Vietnam
1990China
Malawi
1991Morocco
El Salvador
1992Haiti
(“Selvi”)Sri Lanka
1993Bosnia
Syria
Serbia
1994Đoàn Viết HoạtVietnam
Turkey
1995Cuba
San San NwehMyanmar (Burma)
1996Myanmar (Burma)
AnonymousAfrica
1997Nigeria
Turkey
1998Nigeria
China
1999Syria
Turkey
2000Kosovo
China
2001Iran
Uzbekistan
2002Myanmar (Burma)
Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
2003Cuba
Tunisia
2004Vietnam
Iran
2005Saudi Arabia
Gambia
2006Algeria
Turkmenistan
2007Cuba
2008China
2009China
2010Nay Phone LattBurma
2011Iran
2012Ethiopia [4]
2013Turkey [5] [6]
2014Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China [7] [8]
2015Azerbaijan [9]
2018 and Kyaw Soe OoMyanmar [10]

PEN/Steven Kroll Award (2012–2014)

The PEN/Steven Kroll Award[11] was awarded by the PEN American Center "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers."[12] Established in memory of Steven Kroll, a former PEN Trustee and Chair of PEN's Children's/Young Adult Book Authors Committee, this honor was awarded for the first time in 2012 for a book published in 2011.[13] [14] The last award was given in 2014.

Winners

PEN/Steven Kroll Award winners!Year!Author!Title!Ref.
2012Never Forgotten
2013[15]
2014[16] [17]

PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010–2011)

The PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career was awarded by the PEN American Center to honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction.[18]

Winners

PEN/W.G. Sebald Award winners!Year!Author!Ref.
2010[19]
2011[20]

PEN Emerging Writers Awards (2011)

The PEN Emerging Writers Awards was awarded by the PEN American Center. It was awarded to up-and-coming authors whose writing had been featured in distinguished literary journals, but had not published book-length works.[21] Three prizes were awarded: one fiction, one nonfiction, and one poetry. Candidates were nominated only by editors from print and online journals. Participating journals for 2011 included: 6 x 6, A Public Space, Bloom, Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fence, Gargoyle, Glimmer Train, Guernica, Harvard Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lungfull!, New York Quarterly, One Story, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House.

Winners

PEN Emerging Writers Awards winners!Year!Category!Author!Ref.
2011Fiction[22]
Poetry
Nonfiction

PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award (2000)

The PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award was given to unpublished writers who submit original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript competed for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in The Boston Book Review. Award was active for one year.[23] [24]

Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts (2000–2001)

The Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts was presented for literary writing on the visual arts.[25] [26] It was active two years 2000–2001.

Gregory Kolovakos Award (1992–2004)

The Gregory Kolovakos Award[27] was a literary award given every three years by PEN American Center to a U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic "whose work, in meeting the challenge of cultural difference, extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience". It was primarily intended to recognize translations into English from Spanish, but translations from other Hispanic languages were also eligible. Gregory Kolovakos was a graduate of Yale University and served as the director of the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts for many years. He was also the founding executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1985. The monetary amount of the Award was USD $2000. The prize was first given in 1992.

Winners

Gregory Kolovakos Award winners!Year!Author
1992
1998
2001
2004

Jerard Fund Award (2001–2005)

The Jerard Fund Award honored a work in progress of general nonfiction distinguished by high literary quality by a woman at the midpoint in her career. Presented every 2 years, it was active from 2001 to 2005.[28]

Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir (1998–2006)

The Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir was presented for a first published memoir. It was active from 1998 to 2006.[29]

Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction (1989–2006)

The Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction was presented for an American author's first-published book of general nonfiction. It was active from 1989 to 2006.[30]

PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award (1993–2006)

The PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award was an award presented annually from 1993 to 2006 to a U.S. resident who "fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word."[31] Sponsored by PEN American Center and Newman's Own, a cash prize of $20,000 was awarded. It was active from 1993 to 2006.

Winners

PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award winners!Year!Author!Description!Ref.
1993Restored literary classics—including Steinbeck, Chaucer, and Aristophanes—that had been banned from Florida classrooms; defended student production of A Raisin in the Sun. Patricia Lightweis fought targeted obscenity charges brought against her for books and magazines carried at her store in South Carolina.
1994Arizona drama teacher who resisted district censorship of a play selected for student production.
1995Denver bookstore owner who successfully challenged a Colorado law barring stores open to children from selling novels and art books with sexual content, and who continued to sell Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in 1989, donating 25% of proceeds to anticensorship organizations.
1996Missouri high school Creative Writing teacher fired for "failure to censor her students' creative expression."
1997Defeated a corporation's attempt to silence her written concerns about possible groundwater contamination caused by a local landfill.
1998Maine writer and journalist harassed for her attempts to cover local industrial health hazards.
1999Florida high school teacher and student newspaper advisor who has struggled to defend literature in the classroom and press freedom for students.
2000President, Kilgore College, who defended the production of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America in Kilgore, Texas.
2001High school librarian in West Monroe, Louisiana who fought to preserve access to library materials banned for sexual content.[32]
Cuban-émigré theater producer who challenged Miami-Dade County's ban on public funding to arts organizations performing work by artists currently living in Cuba.
2002Freelance writer who was jailed in a federal detention center in Texas for 168 days for refusing to bow to a sweeping subpoena of confidential source materials.
2003Texas librarian who successfully turned back an attempt to remove books from circulation at Montgomery County public libraries.
2004One of eight incarcerated writers who were sued by the State of Connecticut after contributing to Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters, a moving anthology of stories and essays by women who participated in a creative writing workshop led by Wally Lamb at York Correctional Institute.
2005Librarian and library director in rural Washington state who challenged an FBI effort to search patron records under the Library Awareness Program.[33]
2006Translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit.

PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award (2008)

The PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award was presented for only one year. It was meant to given to a U.S. resident "who has fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word."[34] Sponsored by PEN American Center and Katherine Anne Porter Foundation, the award included a cash prize of US$10,000. The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award which was last awarded in 2006. The award was given in 2008 only.

Winner

Renato Poggioli Translation Award (1991–2000)

The Renato Poggioli Translation Award was for a translator at work on an English-language version of Italian literature. Active from 1991 to 2000.[36]

Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement (1971–2000)

The Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement was presented to a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement." It was active from 1971 to 2000.[37] |To a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement."[38]

Roger Klein Award for Editing

The Roger Klein Award for Editing was an honor "given [every two years] to an outstanding editor in trade hardcover publishing."[39] It was active from 1971 to 2000.[40]

Notes and References

  1. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA689 . The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature . Literary Prizes and Awards . Continuum International Publishing Group . Alfred Bendixen . 2005 . 689 . 9780826417770 . February 22, 2018 . February 24, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230224194004/https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA689 . live .
  2. Web site: PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award . PEN American Center . February 21, 2018 . March 18, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180318012151/https://pen.org/penbarbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award/ . live .
  3. Web site: Freedom to Write . Barbara Goldsmith . August 29, 2012 . July 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120720235231/http://www.barbaragoldsmith.com/newsletter.htm?newsletter= . live .
  4. News: Spielmann . Peter James . May 2, 2012 . PEN honors jailed Ethiopian journalist . . 2012-05-04 . August 31, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130831114734/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UGJ5RO0.htm . dead .
  5. Web site: April 18, 2013 . Top PEN Prize to jailed Turkish translator, writer and activist Ayşe Berktay . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073432/http://www.ceatl.eu/archives/2013/04/18/4340 . April 7, 2014 . April 1, 2014 . European Council of Literary Translators' Associations.
  6. Web site: April 16, 2013 . Jailed Translator Receives PEN Prize . April 1, 2014 . Bianet . December 8, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171208175129/http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/145881-jailed-translator-receives-pen-prize . live .
  7. Web site: March 31, 2014 . Tohti to Receive PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award . April 1, 2014 . Publishers Weekly . January 19, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150119114828/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61654-tohti-to-receive-pen-barbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award.html . live .
  8. Web site: April 1, 2014 . China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize . April 1, 2014 . Reuters . March 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306161919/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBREA300LL20140401 . live .
  9. Web site: David M. Herszenhorn . April 15, 2015 . Jailed Azerbaijani Journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, to Be Honored by PEN . April 19, 2015 . New York Times . September 29, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170929093315/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/world/europe/azerbaijan-khadija-ismayilova-to-get-pen-press-freedom-award.html?_r=0 . live .
  10. Web site: February 13, 2018 . 2018 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award: Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo . November 20, 2018 . November 20, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221212/https://pen.org/2018-pen-barbey-freedom-write-award-wa-lone-kyaw-soe-oo/ . live .
  11. Web site: PEN/Steven Kroll Award . October 16, 2012 . PEN American Center . February 21, 2018 . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100055/http://www.pen.org/content/pensteven-kroll-award-picture-book-writing-5000 . live .
  12. Web site: PEN American Center Literary Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20120627002747/https://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2144. dead. June 27, 2012.
  13. Web site: PEN/Steven Kroll Award Announced . Publishers Weekly . May 19, 2011 . August 11, 2012 . May 22, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110522183615/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/47333-pen-steven-kroll-award-announced.html . live .
  14. Web site: PEN American Center Establishes Steven Kroll Award . May 20, 2011 . August 11, 2012 . School Library Journal . February 1, 2013 . https://archive.today/20130201214120/http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/890716-312/pen__american_center_establishes.html.csp . live .
  15. Web site: Carolyn Kellogg . August 14, 2013 . Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards . August 14, 2013 . . August 16, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130816025317/http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-pen-announces-winners-of-its-2013-awards-20130814,0,5632674.story . live .
  16. Web site: April 16, 2014 . 2014 PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing . August 1, 2014 . . July 12, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140712082108/http://www.pen.org/literature/2014-pensteven-kroll-award-picture-book-writing . live .
  17. News: Ron Charles . Ron Charles (critic) . July 30, 2014 . Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards . . August 1, 2014 . May 9, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150509075051/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/30/winners-of-the-2014-pen-literary-awards/ . live .
  18. Web site: PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career. December 18, 2014. September 20, 2019. September 20, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190920120157/https://pen.org/literary-award/penw-g-sebald-award-for-a-fiction-writer-in-mid-career/. live.
  19. Web site: PATRICIA COHEN . September 24, 2010 . ARTSBEAT; PEN Presents Awards . August 11, 2012 . New York Times . February 2, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180202211840/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01EED8113EF937A1575AC0A9669D8B63 . live .
  20. Stacey Mickelbart . August 11, 2011 . The 2011 PEN Honorees in The New Yorker . The New Yorker . August 11, 2012 . June 9, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130609200855/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/08/2011-pen-awards.html . live .
  21. Web site: PEN American Center Literary Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20120627003205/https://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2171. dead. June 27, 2012.
  22. News: August 11, 2011 . Jacket Copy: PEN American Center's 2011 award winners . LA Times . August 11, 2012 . December 10, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111210011517/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/pen-american-centers-2011-awards.html . live .
  23. News: PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award Introduced . February 9, 2009 . The Write News . August 29, 2012 . October 8, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081008013637/http://www.writenews.com/2000/020900_amazon_pen.htm . live .
  24. Web site: PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019105142/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/905 . October 19, 2012 .
  25. News: Mehta Merge Master at Knopf . CELIA MCGEE . November 12, 2012 . August 29, 2012 . New York Daily News.
  26. Web site: Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005322/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/906 . October 19, 2012 .
  27. Web site: PEN American Center - Gregory Kolovakos Award. October 30, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051030233401/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/287. October 30, 2005.
  28. Web site: Jerard Fund Award . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081014045710/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/291 . October 14, 2008 .
  29. Web site: Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091220040833/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/290 . December 20, 2009 .
  30. Web site: Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120901204933/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/289 . September 1, 2012 .
  31. Web site: PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award recipient announced . PEN American Center . April 5, 2004 . January 2, 2013 . March 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306020229/http://www.pen.org/press-release/2004/04/05/pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award-recipient-announced . live .
  32. Web site: April 20, 2001 . Ordinary Heroes: Two ACLU Clients to Receive the 2001 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award . August 28, 2012 . American Civil Liberties Union . August 14, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120814202127/http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/ordinary-heroes-two-aclu-clients-receive-2001-pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award . live .
  33. News: Airoldi . Joan . May 17, 2005 . Librarian's brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act . USA Today . 2007-04-16 . May 4, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120504191743/http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-17-librarian-edit_x.htm . live .
  34. Web site: V.A. Nurse to Receive 2008 PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award . PEN American Center . April 11, 2008 . January 2, 2013 . March 5, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201432/http://www.pen.org/press-release/2008/04/11/va-nurse-receive-2008-penkatherine-anne-porter-first-amendment-award . live .
  35. News: Times editors . April 27, 2008 . Laura Berg's Letter . . August 28, 2012 . October 23, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023000442/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27sun3.html . live .
  36. Web site: Renato Poggioli Translation Award . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005841/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/908 . October 19, 2012 .
  37. Web site: Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement . PEN American Center . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019032316/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/912 . October 19, 2012 .
  38. Web site: Willen Wins PEN/Klein Award . Publishers Weekly . February 22, 2009 . August 29, 2012.
  39. Web site: November 27, 1984 . P.E.N. Awards Given To 2 Publishing Figures . August 29, 2012 . . May 24, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150524160347/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/books/pen-awards-given-to-2-publishing-figures.html . live .
  40. Web site: Roger Klein Award for Editing Winners . PEN American Center . August 29, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019004928/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/911 . October 19, 2012 .

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