PEN / Ackerley Prize ( or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography ) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year.

* Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, literary award

The various PEN affiliations offer many literary awards across a broad spectrum.

* PEN literary awards-as awarded by and in conjunction with PEN centers around the world.

Over the years many literary institutions have developed in the city, including the PEN American Center, the largest of the international literary organization's centers.

The PEN American Center plays an important role in New York's literary community and is active in defending free speech, the promotion of literature, and the fostering of international literary fellowship.

A widely-celebrated writer and the winner of many literary awards, he is the first to win the International PEN / Faulkner Award twice: in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire.

She has won major awards including literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the arts, and her fiction has won prizes like the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and the West Virginia Library Association Award ( 1980 ), as well as the Chaffin Award for fiction.

In subsequent years, he edited various literary and journalistic publications, started a publishing house, and founded the Philippine branch of PEN, an international organization for writers.

PEN American Center ( PEN ), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.

Full membership in PEN generally requires the publication of one or more books of a literary character, or one or more play produced in a professional venue.

Over the years, PEN American Center's membership has included many of the leading lights in the American literary establishment, including Edward Albee, Paul Auster, James Baldwin, Giannina Braschi, Willa Cather, Don De Lillo, Robert Frost, Tony Kushner, Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie and John Steinbeck.

In addition to defending persecuted writers, PEN American Center sponsors public literary programs and forums on current issues, sends prominent authors to inner-city schools to encourage reading and writing, administers literary prizes, promotes international literature that might otherwise go unread in the United States, and offers grants and loans to writers facing financial or Medical Emergencies.

PEN American Center has an extensive program of annual awards and fellowships that serve to recognize recent outstanding endeavours in various literary fields and to encourage different forms of literary production.

PEN America is a semi-annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir.

In 2012, Godwin was named President of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world ’ s oldest literary and human rights organization.

New York is also home to PEN American Center, the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world ’ s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization.

Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN / Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $ 25, 000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment as it applies to the written word.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Category: PEN / Faulkner Foundation awards

He covered both the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars for Harper's, winning numerous awards and accolades, including the 2005 inaugural PEN ' Paul Kidd Award for Courage in Journalism '.

He has received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1995 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p ' o.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Category: English PEN awards

There were also awards: Bahro was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky of the International League for Human Rights and a member of the Swedish and appointed by the Danish PEN Centre.

" The book won several awards, including the prestigious PEN / Bingham Fellowship Prize for Writers and the MEA Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work.

Bei Dao has won numerous awards, including Tucholsky Prize from Swedish PEN, International Poetry Argana Award from the House of Poetry in Morocco and the PEN / Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

Among other awards, Charles Mee is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two OBIE Awards ( Vienna: Lusthaus ( 1986 ) and Big Love ( 2002 )), PEN / Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama for a playwright in mid-career, and the Fisher Award given by the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Lee's first novel, Native Speaker ( 1995 ), won numerous awards including the PEN / Hemingway Award.

CPI's work has received awards from PEN USA, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and others.

Sorrentino was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Guggenheim Fellowships in Fiction in 1973 and 1987, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature ( 1981 ), PEN / Faulkner Award finalist in 1981 and 2003, the Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( declined, 1982 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature ( 1985 ), the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction ( 1992 ), and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

His awards include Heinemann Award ( 1969 ), PEN Award ( 1974 ), W. H.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Other awards he received included a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and memberships in a variety of literary societies throughout the United States.

Category: LGBT literary awards

Judy Blume has won more than ninety literary awards.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

The prominence of Hubbard's name and the lavish funding of the contest awards, publicity and ceremonies have led some to speculate that the contest is part of a campaign by the Church of Scientology to promote Hubbard's status in the science fiction and literary communities.

Wright received several different literary awards during his lifetime including the Spingarn Medal in 1941, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939, and the Story Magazine Award.

Category: American literary awards

Category: American literary awards

Category: American literary awards

Category: Non-fiction literary awards

It is one of the few African literary awards that recognizes writing for children and young adults and the only pan-African writing competition that recognizes promising African writers of children's literature.

Category: Canadian literary awards

Category: Canadian literary awards

Its flagship are two literary awards and a website.

Berton served as the Chancellor of Yukon College and, along with numerous honorary degrees, received over 30 literary awards such as the Governor General's Award for Creative Non-Fiction ( three times ), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Léger Award for Lifetime Achievement in Heritage Conservation.

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U. S. literary awards.

* List of literary awards

For the most part of the century mostly ignored by mainstream literary criticism, these genres develop their own establishments and critical awards, such as the Nebula Award ( since 1965 ), the British Fantasy Award ( since 1971 ) or the Mythopoeic Awards ( since 1971 ).

William Clark Styron, Jr. ( June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006 ) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

* List of literary awards for fiction and nonfiction.

* List of New Zealand literary awards

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* List of British literary awards

* List of literary awards