1996 PEN Literary Award Winners
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The 1996 PEN Literary Awards were presented in New York City on May 20, 1996. The Hemingway Award was presented April 21, 1996, in Boston.
| Ernest Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award for First Fiction | Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (Riverhead) |
| Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize | Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, translators, View With a Grain of Sand (Harcourt Brace) by Wislawa Szymborska |
| Pen Award for Poetry in Translation | Guy Davenport, editor and translator, 7 Greeks (New Directions) |
| Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry | Franz Wright |
| Pen/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction | Mary Karr, The Liars' Club (Viking) |
| Pen/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay | Thomas Nagel, Other Minds—Critical Essays 1969—1994 (Oxford) |
| Gregory Kolovakos Awards Recognizing Lifetime Dedication to Bringing Works of Hispanic Literatures to English-Language Readers | Suzanne Jill Levine |
| Jean Franco | |
| Emerging Writer Award/Renato Poggioli Translation Award | Louise Rozier, Little Jesus of Sicily by Fortunato Pasqualino (in progress) |
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