1999 PEN Literary Award Winners
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
| PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama | Edward Albee, master American dramatist |
| Paula Vogel, playwright in mid-career | |
| PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for an Emerging Poet | Nick Flynn |
| PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay | Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (Houghton Mifflin). |
| PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction | Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Picador USA) |
| PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir | Ted Solotaroff, Truth Comes in Blows (W.W. Norton & Company) |
| PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize | The Tale of the 1002nd Night, by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann, translator (Picador USA) |
| PEN Award for Poetry in Translation | Fernando Pessoa & Co.,by Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith, translator (Grove Press) |
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