PEN Center USA’s annual awards program, established in 1982, is a unique, regional competition that recognizes literary excellence in ten categories: fiction, creative nonfiction, research nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, translation, journalism, drama, teleplay, and screenplay. Past award winners include Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Hong Kingston, T.C. Boyle and Paul Thomas Anderson. Each fall, PEN USA calls for submissions of work produced or published in that calendar year by writers living west of the Mississippi River. Entries in the ten categories are reviewed and judged by panels of distinguished writers, critics and editors.
Winners of the 2010 PEN USA Literary Awards, which honor outstanding work by writers in several genres--including a new award for graphic literature--are:
Fiction: Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
Poetry: Multiversal by Amy Catanzano
Creative nonfiction: This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman
Research nonfiction: Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala
Children's/young adult literature: The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman
Journalism: "Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures" by Mary Melton Translation: Fady Joudah for If I Were Another by Mahmoud Darwish
Graphic literature: Matt Fraction for his outstanding body of work
Exceptional first book: The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia
Drama: Tree by Julie Hebert
Screenplay: Up in the Air by Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
Teleplay: House MD: The Tyrant by Peter Blake
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