Wallace was honored with the PEN / Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist in 2005.

She is also the recipient of the PEN / Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award by PEN American Center and the Human Rights Award of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin.

Since 2005, Lahiri has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center, an organization designed to promote friendship and intellectual cooperation among writers.

In 2011, Hwang received the PEN / Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Grand Master of American Theater.

Her honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund ; The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer ’ s Award ; and three PEN American Center Grants for Writers with AIDS.

The PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN / Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens.

During 1989 Sontag was the President of PEN American Center, the main U. S. branch of the International PEN writers ' organization.

Kelley won the 2005 PEN Oakland Censorship Award and the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors for her “ courageous writing on popular culture .” She received the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York City.

* 2008 PEN / Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, for a career whose writing " 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.

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In 2009 The O. Henry Prize Stories publisher, Anchor Books, renamed the series in partnership with the PEN American Center, producing the first PEN / O.

He has served as president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and was on the faculty of the American Film Institute and the Sundance Institute.

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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.

In 2007, Gurney received the PEN / Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist.

Dassanowsky served as founding president of the Colorado chapter of PEN and is a founding Vice President of the Austrian American Film Association ( AAFA ).

He has received the annual Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a " Lifetime Achievement in the Theater " award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN American Center Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.

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.

This Tribute to Harold Pinter co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center ( MESTC ), of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York ( CUNY ), was part of the Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in New York City, from 27 April to 3 May 2009.

In 1999, Soto received the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes.

This Tribute to Harold Pinter co-sponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center ( MESTC ), of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York ( CUNY ), was part of the Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in New York City, from 27 April to 3 May 2009.

Returning to West Berlin in 1969, he became a member of the West German PEN Center and of the Akademie der Künste ( Academy of the Arts ).

She also won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002 / 2003 ( PEN Center Award ), for " Half of a Yellow Sun ".

* 2002 / 2003: David T. Wong International Short Story Prize ( PEN Center Award ), for " Half of a Yellow Sun "

The Conference, which was an initiative of the Translations and Linguistic Rights Commission of the International PEN Club and the CIEMEN ( Escarre International Center for Ethnic Minorities and the Nations ), comprised 61 NGOs, 41 PEN Centers and 40 experts.

She has been Chair of the Writers ' Union of Canada and President of PEN Canada, and is currently a Vice President of PEN International.

In 1999, Flora Brovina was recipient of the annual Tucholsky Award of the Swedish PEN Club, a prize which has been awarded to other writers of note such as Salman Rushdie, Adam Zagajevski, Nuruddin Farah, Taslima Nasrin, Shirali Nurmuadov and Vincent Magombe.

He has won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN / Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting ( 1999 ).

His collection Under The Red Flag ( 1997 ) won the Flannery O ' Connor Award for Short Fiction, while Ocean of Words ( 1996 ) has been awarded the PEN / Hemingway Award.

Chinese-American author Ha Jin in 1999 won the National Book Award for his second novel, Waiting, about a Chinese soldier in the Revolutionary Army who has to wait 18 years to divorce his wife for another woman, all the while having to worry about persecution for his protracted affair, and twice won the PEN / Faulkner Award, in 2000 for Waiting and in 2005 for War Trash.

She has been Chair of the Writers ' Trust of Canada and President of PEN Canada.

Since March 1995, he has been the deputy chairman of the Polish PEN.

Mohsin Hamid published his first novel Moth Smoke ( 2000 ), which won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award ; he has since published his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2007 ), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

In 2000 he was honored with the PEN / Nabokov award and the PEN / Nabokov Lifetime Achievement award which he has called his " most prized prize.

She has served on the PEN Prison Writing Committee.

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.

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.

The Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.

The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway Society since 1987, and PEN New England.

A member of PEN American Center, Andre Dubus III has served as a panelist for The National Book Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, Emerson College, and the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he is a full-time faculty member.

She has also sat on the panel of judges for the PEN / Newman's Own Award, a $ 25, 000 award designed to recognize the protection of free speech as it applies to the written word.

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.