Award | Description | Founded | Status |
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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | To honor a poetry translation | 1996 | Active |
PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award | Established in 2016, this award is designed to honor a writer imprisoned for his or her work. Its predecessor was PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom To Write Award (see below). | 2016 | Active |
PEN/Bellwether Prize | For a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice. | 2000 | Active |
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay | For a book of original collected essays | 1990 | Active |
PEN/Distinguished Leadership Award | Individual award given out in 2018 [2] and 2019, [3] both times to lawyers. In 2018, an entertainment lawyer was honored "for exceptional work in support of PEN America and its mission to defend free expression", [4] and in 2019, a First Amendment lawyer was honored for "for his exceptional work handling high-profile litigation, media relations, and media legal issues, particularly his recent representation of [two] White House correspondent[s]". [5] [6] | 2018 | Active |
PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature | To honor an author of a major work of Paraguayan literature and the English translator. | 2012 | Active |
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | For writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. | 2011 | Active |
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing | To honor a nonfiction book about sports. | 2010-2019 | Inactive |
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing | To honor an author's body of work and long-term contributions to the field of literary sports writing. | 2011-2019 | Inactive |
PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize | Recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue | 2015-2016 | Inactive |
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award | To honor a "distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year." | 2008 | Active |
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award | To "a book that has broken new ground and signals strong potential for lasting influence." [7] | 2016 | Active |
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | To a distinguished book of general nonfiction that possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. | 2007 | Active |
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry | In recognition of a book of poetry with high literary character by a new and emerging American poet of any age with the promise of further literary achievement. | 1999-2020 | Inactive |
PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award | To a Grand Master of American Theater and a playwright in mid-career. | 1998 | Active |
PEN/Nabokov Award | To writers, principally novelists, "whose works evoke to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure". | 2000–2008; 2017– | Active |
PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing | To "a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout their career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits." | 1993 | Active |
PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories | Annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. | 1919 | Active |
PEN Open Book Award | To books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage". | 1991 | Active |
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship | To a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in their career to complete a book-length work-in-progress." | 2001 | Active |
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation | To a translator "whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of their work". | 1982 | Active |
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers | Recognizes 12 emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story | 2016 | Active |
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize | To "exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories...represent distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise." | 2002 | Active |
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction | To "a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature." | 2007 | Active |
PEN Translation Fund Grants | Grants are awarded each year to a select number of literary translators | 2003 | Active |
PEN Translation Prize | To outstanding translations into the English language. | 1963 | Active |
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry | To an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. | 1994 | Active |
PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award | Honours writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression. Succeeded by PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (see above). | 1987–2015 | Inactive |
PEN/Steven Kroll Award | "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers." | 2012–2014 | Inactive |
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award | To honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction. | 2010–2011 | Inactive |
PEN Emerging Writers Awards | To up-and-coming authors whose writing have been featured in distinguished literary journals, but haven't published book-length works. | 2011–2011 | Inactive |
PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award [8] [9] | Unpublished writers submit original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript will compete for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in The Boston Book Review . Award active for one year. | 2000–2000 | Inactive |
Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts [10] [11] | For literary writing on the visual arts. Award active for two years. | 2000–2001 | Inactive |
Gregory Kolovakos Award | 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". | 1992–2004 | Inactive |
Jerard Fund Award [12] | Honors 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. | 2001–2005 | Inactive |
Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir [13] | For a first published memoir. | 1998–2006 | Inactive |
Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction [14] | For an American author's first-published book of general nonfiction. | 1989–2006 | Inactive |
PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award [15] | 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." The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award | 2008–2008 | Inactive |
PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award | 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." | 1993–2006 | Inactive |
Renato Poggioli Translation Award [16] | For a translator at work on an English-language version of Italian literature. | 1991–2000 (?) | Inactive |
Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement [17] | To a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement." [18] | 1971–2000 (?) | Inactive |
Roger Klein Award for Editing [19] | An honor "given [every two years] to an outstanding editor in trade hardcover publishing." [20] | 1971–2000 (?) | Inactive |