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Awards presented by the PEN American Center (today PEN America) that are no longer active.

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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
YearWinnerCountry Ref.
1987 Nizametdin Akhmetov Soviet Union
Matsemela Manaka South Africa
1988 Maina wa Kinyatti Kenya
Pramoedya Ananta Toer Indonesia
1989 Martha Kumsa Ethiopia
Nguyễn Chí Thiện Vietnam
1990 Bei Dao China
Jack Mapanje Malawi
1991 Abraham Serfaty Morocco
Francisco Valencia El Salvador
1992 Jean Mario Paul Haiti
Thiagarajah Selvanithy (“Selvi”)Sri Lanka
1993 Zoran Mutic Bosnia
Nizar Nayouf Syria
Svetlana Slapšak Serbia
1994 Đoàn Viết Hoạt Vietnam
Edip Polat Turkey
1995 Yndamiro Restano Díaz Cuba
San San NwehMyanmar (Burma)
1996 Ma Thida Myanmar (Burma)
AnonymousAfrica
1997 Godwin Agbroko Nigeria
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu Turkey
1998 Ogaga Ifowodo Nigeria
Liu Jingsheng China
1999 Faraj Bayrakdar Syria
Esber Yagmurdereli Turkey
2000 Flora Brovina Kosovo
Xue Deyun China
2001 Shahla Lahiji Iran
Mamadali Mahmudov Uzbekistan
2002 Aung Myint Myanmar (Burma)
Tohti Tunyaz Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
2003 Bernardo Arévalo Padrón Cuba
Zouhair Yahyaoui Tunisia
2004 Lê Chi Quang Vietnam
Nasser Zarafshan Iran
2005 Ali Al-Domaini Saudi Arabia
Deyda Hydara Gambia
2006 Mohammad Benchicou Algeria
Rakhim Esenov Turkmenistan
2007 Normando Hernández González Cuba
2008 Yang Tongyan China
2009 Liu Xiaobo China
2010 Nay Phone Latt Burma
2011 Nasrin Sotoudeh Iran
2012 Eskinder Nega Ethiopia [4]
2013 Ayşe Berktay Turkey [5] [6]
2014 Ilham Tohti Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China [7] [8]
2015 Khadija Ismayilova Azerbaijan [9]
2018 Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo Myanmar [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
YearAuthorTitleRef.
2012 Patricia C. McKissack Never Forgotten
2013 Michelle Markel The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau [15]
2014 Bil Lepp The King of Little Things [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
YearAuthorRef.
2010 Susan Choi [19]
2011 Aleksander Hemon [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
YearCategoryAuthorRef.
2011 Fiction Adam Day [22]
Poetry Smith Henderson [22]
Nonfiction David Stuart McLean [22]

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
YearAuthor
1992 Eliot Weinberger
1998 Johannes Wilbert
2001 Gregory Rabassa
Alastair Reid
2004 Cola Franzen
Robert M. Laughlin
Alexander Taylor

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
YearAuthorDescriptionRef.
1993 Claudia JohnsonRestored 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.
1994 Carole Marlowe Arizona drama teacher who resisted district censorship of a play selected for student production.
1995 Joyce Meskis Denver 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.
1996 Cissy Lacks Missouri high school Creative Writing teacher fired for "failure to censor her students' creative expression."
1997 Nancy Hsu Fleming Defeated a corporation's attempt to silence her written concerns about possible groundwater contamination caused by a local landfill.
1998 Terrilyn Simpson Maine writer and journalist harassed for her attempts to cover local industrial health hazards.
1999 Releah Lent Florida high school teacher and student newspaper advisor who has struggled to defend literature in the classroom and press freedom for students.
2000 William Holda President, Kilgore College, who defended the production of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America in Kilgore, Texas.
2001 Deloris Wilson High school librarian in West Monroe, Louisiana who fought to preserve access to library materials banned for sexual content. [32]
Alberto Sarrain 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. [32]
2002 Vanessa Leggett Freelance 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.
2003 Jerilynn Adams Williams Texas librarian who successfully turned back an attempt to remove books from circulation at Montgomery County public libraries.
2004 Barbara Parsons Lane One 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.
2005 Joan Airoldi Librarian and library director in rural Washington state who challenged an FBI effort to search patron records under the Library Awareness Program. [33]
2006 Sibel Edmonds Translator 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

YearAuthorDescriptionRef.
2008 Laura BergPsychiatric nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital who faced an investigation into possible charges of sedition when she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper which was critical of George W. Bush. [35]

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 c. 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 c. 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 c. 2000. [40]

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