Posts with the tag: PEN Awards

James Salter to Receive 2012 PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction

James Salter has won the PEN/Malamud Award 2012 for his contribution to short fiction. The following titles are on order at Mullen Library: Burning the Days Light Years The Hunters Gods of Tin: the Flying Years Last Night: Stories Sport and a Pastime Life is Meals Memorial Days: the Selected Letters of James Salter and Read More

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The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka wins PEN / Faulkner 2012 Award for Fiction

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka wins the PEN / Faulkner 2012 Award for Fiction.  The announcement was made March 26th.  The award will be given May 5th at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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PEN Literary Awards for 2011

PEN American Center announced its 2011 awards for literature: PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000) To a fiction writer whose debut work, published in 2010, represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000) For a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical and biological sciences Read More

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