1997 PEN Literary Award Winners
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| Ernest Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award for First Fiction | Ha Jin, Ocean of Words (Zoland Press) |
| PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize | The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Arnold Pomerans, translator; Ronald de Leeuw, editor (Viking) |
| PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | Uncollected Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow, translator (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
| PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation | Robert Fagles for lifetime achievement |
| PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction | Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast (HarperCollins) |
| PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay | Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly (Knopf) |
| Emerging Writer Award/Renato Poggioli Translation Award | Ann McGarrell, The Face of Isis, by Vittoria Ronchey |
| PEN/Jerard Fund Award for a Nonfiction Work in Progress by a Woman Writer | Winter Kill, Judy Blunt |
| PEN/Norma Klein Award for a New Children's Fiction Writer | Rita Williams-Garcia, Sisters on the Homefront, Fast Talk on a Slow Track and Blue Tights (all Lodestar) |
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