PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction ($25,000): To a distinguished living American author of fiction.

JUDGES: Louise Erdrich, Dinaw Mengestu, and Francine Prose

WINNER: Toni Morrison

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): To an author whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2015—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

JUDGES: Helon Habila, Elizabeth McCracken, Edie Meidav, and Jess Row

WINNER:

In the Country: Stories

Mia Alvar

Alfred A. Knopf

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PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Founded by Barbara Kingsolver ($25,000): To an author of an unpublished novel that addresses issues of social justice. The prize also includes a publishing contract with Algonquin Books.

JUDGES: Laila Lalami, Kathy Pories, and Brando Skyhorse

WINNER: Lisa Ko for “The Leavers” (Forthcoming from Algonquin Books)

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000): For a book of essays published in 2015 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.

JUDGES: Verlyn Klinkenborg, Meghan O’Rourke, and Luc Sante

WINNER:

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Spiegel & Grau/Random House

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PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000): For a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical or biological sciences published in 2015.

JUDGES: Joshua Foer, Virginia Hughes, and Sonia Shah

WINNER:

Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

Lauren Redniss

Random House

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PEN Open Book Award ($5,000): For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2015.

JUDGES: Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Celeste Ng, and Héctor Tobar

WINNER:

Chord

Rick Barot

Sarabande Books

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PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards ($7,500 and $2,500): Three awards which honor a Master American Dramatist, American Playwright in Mid-Career, and Emerging American Playwright.

JUDGES: Annie Baker, Kirsten Greenidge, and Tracy Letts

Master American Dramatist (to receive a specially commissioned art object):

WINNER: Lynn Nottage

American Playwright in Mid-Career ($7,500):

WINNER: Young Jean Lee

Emerging American Playwright ($2,500):

WINNER: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): To honor a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2015.

JUDGES: David Epstein, Ann Killion, and Dave Zirin

WINNER:

The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph

Scott Ellsworth

Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group

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PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): For a writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field.

JUDGES: Senator William W. Bradley, Sally Jenkins, and Dave Kindred

WINNER: John Schulian

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000): For a distinguished biography published in 2015.

JUDGES: Nell Irvin Painter, Deborah Solomon, and Simon Winchester

WINNER:

Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

Nancy Princenthal

Thames & Hudson

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PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000): For an author of children’s or young-adult fiction to complete a book-length work-in-progress.

JUDGES: Emily Arnold McCully, Katherine Paterson, and Jason Reynolds

WINNER: Ash Parsons for “A Chemical Distance” (Available for publication)

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry ($5,000): To a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.

JUDGES: Catherine Barnett, Jericho Brown, and Tina Chang

WINNER: Ed Roberson

PEN Translation Prize ($3,000): For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2015.

JUDGES: Elisabeth Jaquette, Aviya Kushner, Ronald Meyer, Sara Nović, and Jeffrey Zuckerman

WINNER:

The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector

Translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson

New Directions

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PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000): For a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2015.

JUDGE: Urayoán Noel

WINNER:

The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa

Translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu

Canarium Books

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PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature ($3,000): To a living author of a major work of Paraguayan literature not yet translated into English.

JUDGES: Ezra E. Fitz, Amalia Gladhart, and Mark Weiss

WINNER: Nathalia María Echauri Castagnino for Doce Lunas Llenas: Poesias sobre la Divina Energia Femenina

PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize ($10,000): For a promising young writer under the age of 35 for an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue.

JUDGES: Marie Arana, Manuel Gonzales, and Johnny Temple

WINNER:

Jean Guerrero for “Crux”

PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ($2,000-$4,000): To support the translation of book-length works into English.

JUDGES: Esther Allen, Peter Blackstock, Sara Khalili, Tynan Kogane, Allison Markin Powell, Antonio Romani, Chip Rossetti, and Alex Zucker

WINNERS: Gabriel Amor, Ellen Cassedy, Chris Clarke, Sharon Dolin, Kaiama L. Glover, Anita Gopalan, Amanda Lee, Karen Leeder, Rachel McNicholl, Alicia Meier, Emma Ramadan, Corine Tachtiris, Russell Valentino, and Jeffrey Zuckerman