2012 PEN Literary Award Winners

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Find a partial list of this year's winners below. For a complete list, go to PEN awards.

Socially Engaged Fiction	Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Achievement in Fiction	E. L. Doctorow
Debut Book Winner	Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
Essay	Christopher Hitchens, Arguably
Science Nonfiction	James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Biography	Robert K. Massieo Bronson, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Dramatist	Christopher Durang
Poetry	Toi Derricotte

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2012 PEN Literary Award Winners

Find a partial list of this year's winners below. For a complete list, go to PEN awards.

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