{{Short description|none}} There are over 145 International PEN centres on the world, some of which hold annual literary awards. The PEN America Literary Awards have been characterized as being among the "major" literary awards in America.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA689 |title=The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature |chapter=Literary Prizes and Awards |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |author-link=Alfred Bendixen |first= Alfred |last=Bendixen |year=2005 |page=689|isbn=9780826417770 }}</ref>
==PEN America== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |PEN Award for Poetry in Translation |To honor a poetry translation |1996 |Active |- |PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award |Established in 2016, this award is designed to honor a writer imprisoned for his or her work. Its predecessor was PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom To Write Award (see below). |2016 |Active |- |PEN/Bellwether Prize |For a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice. |2000 |Active |- |PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay |For a book of original collected essays |1990 |Active |- |PEN/Distinguished Leadership Award |Individual award given out in 2018<ref>{{cite news |title=PEN honors SoCal writers with 2018 literary awards |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-pen-award-winners-20180927-story.html |access-date=March 19, 2025 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 27, 2018 |quote=...{{nbsp}}PEN America trustee Marvin Putnam, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer, will receive the organization's Distinguished Leadership Award.}}</ref> and 2019,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schaub |first1=Michael |title=PEN America awards honor Ava DuVernay, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-11-04/pen-america-litfest-2019-ava-duvernay |access-date=March 19, 2025 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=November 4, 2019 |quote=Also honored were Los Angeles lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., who received PEN's Distinguished Leadership Award{{nbsp}}....}}</ref> both times to lawyers. In 2018, an entertainment lawyer was honored "for exceptional work in support of PEN America and its mission to defend free expression",<ref>{{cite web |title=2018 Distinguished Leadership Award: Marvin Putnam |url=https://pen.org/2018-distinguished-leadership-award-marvin-putnam/ |publisher=PEN America |access-date=March 19, 2025 |date=September 12, 2018 |quote=...{{nbsp}}PEN America will recognize{{nbsp}}... Marvin Putnam with the Distinguished Leadership Award for exceptional work in support of PEN America and its mission to defend free expression and celebrate literary excellence.}}</ref> and in 2019, a First Amendment lawyer was honored for "his exceptional work handling high-profile litigation, media relations, and media legal issues, particularly his recent representation of [two] White House correspondent[s]".<ref>{{cite press release|title=First Amendment Champion Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Earns PEN America's 2019 Distinguished Leadership Award |url=https://pen.org/press-release/first-amendment-champion-theodore-j-boutrous-jr-earns-pen-americas-2019-distinguished-leadership-award/ |publisher=PEN America |access-date=March 19, 2025 |location=Beverly Hills, California |date=August 30, 2019 |quote=Boutrous will be recognized for his exceptional work handling high-profile litigation, media relations, and media legal issues, particularly his recent representation of Jim Acosta, CNN chief White House correspondent, and Brian Karem, ''Playboy'' White House correspondent.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=First Amendment Lawyer Ted Boutrous Honored with Leadership Award from PEN America |url=https://firstamendmentwatch.org/first-amendment-lawyer-ted-boutrous-honored-with-leadership-award-from-pen-america/ |website=First Amendment Watch |publisher=Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University |access-date=March 19, 2025 |date=August 30, 2019}}</ref> |2018 |Active |- |PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature |To honor an author of a major work of Paraguayan literature and the English translator. |2012 |Active |- |PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award |For writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. |2011 |Active |- |PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing |To honor a nonfiction book about sports. |2010-2019 |Inactive |- |PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing |To honor an author's body of work and long-term contributions to the field of literary sports writing. |2011-2019 |Inactive |- |PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize |Recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue |2015-2016 |Inactive |- |PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award |To honor a "distinguished biography possessing notable literary merit which has been published in the United States during the previous calendar year." |2008 |Active |- |PEN/Jean Stein Book Award |To "a book that has broken new ground and signals strong potential for lasting influence."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-pen-75000-book-prize-20160720-snap-story.html|title=PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country's biggest|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 20, 2016|first=Michael|last=Schaub}}</ref> |2016 |Active |- |PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction |To a distinguished book of general nonfiction that possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. |2007 |Active |- |PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry |In recognition of a book of poetry with high literary character by a new and emerging American poet of any age with the promise of further literary achievement. |1999-2019 |Inactive |- |PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award |To a Grand Master of American Theater and a playwright in mid-career. |1998 |Active |- |PEN/Nabokov Award |To writers, principally novelists, "whose works evoke to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure". |2000–2008; 2017– |Active |- |PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing |To "a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout their career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits." |1993 |Active |- |PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories |Annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. |1919 |Active |- |PEN Open Book Award |To books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage". |1991 |Active |- |PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship |To a writer of children's or young-adult fiction of high literary caliber "at a crucial moment in their career to complete a book-length work-in-progress." |2001 |Active |- |PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation |To a translator "whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of their work". |1982 |Active |- |PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers |Recognizes 12 emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story |2016 |Active |- |PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize |To "exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories...represent distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise." |2002 |Active |- |PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction |To "a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature." |2007–2018 |Inactive |- |PEN Translation Fund Grants |Grants are awarded each year to a select number of literary translators |2003 |Active |- |PEN Translation Prize |To outstanding translations into the English language. |1963 |Active |- |PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry |To an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. |1994 |Active |- |PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award |Honours writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression. Succeeded by PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (see above). |1987–2015 |Inactive |- |PEN/Steven Kroll Award | "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers." |2012–2014 |Inactive |- |PEN/W.G. Sebald Award |To honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction. |2010–2011 |Inactive |- |PEN Emerging Writers Awards |To up-and-coming authors whose writing have been featured in distinguished literary journals, but haven't published book-length works. |2011–2011 |Inactive |- |PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.writenews.com/2000/020900_amazon_pen.htm |title=PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award Introduced |date=February 9, 2009 |work=The Write News |access-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/905 |title=PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019105142/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/905 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref> |Unpublished writers submit original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript will compete for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in ''The Boston Book Review''. Award active for one year. |2000–2000 |Inactive |- |Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-11-12/news/18122314_1_pen-crown-publishing-new-literary-award |title=Mehta Merge Master At Knopf |author=CELIA MCGEE |date=November 12, 2012 |access-date=August 29, 2012 |work=New York Daily News}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/906 |title=Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005322/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/906 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref> |For literary writing on the visual arts. Award active for two years. |2000–2001 |Inactive |- |Gregory Kolovakos Award |To a U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic "whose work, in meeting the challenge of cultural difference, extends Gregory Kolovakos's commitment to the richness of Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience". |1992–2004 |Inactive |- |Jerard Fund Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/291 |title=Jerard Fund Award |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014045710/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/291 |archive-date=October 14, 2008 }}</ref> |Honors a work in progress of general nonfiction distinguished by high literary quality by a woman at the midpoint in her career. Presented every 2 years. |2001–2005 |Inactive |- |Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/290 |title=Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220040833/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/290 |archive-date=December 20, 2009 }}</ref> |For a first published memoir. |1998–2006 |Inactive |- |Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/289 |title=Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901204933/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/289 |archive-date=September 1, 2012 }}</ref> |For an American author's first-published book of general nonfiction. |1989–2006 |Inactive |- |PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27sun3.html |title=Laura Berg's Letter |date=April 27, 2008 |author=Opinion Editorial |access-date=August 28, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> |To a U.S. resident "who has fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word." The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award |2008–2008 |Inactive |- |PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award |To a U.S. resident who "fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word." |1993–2006 |Inactive |- |Renato Poggioli Translation Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/908 |title=Renato Poggioli Translation Award |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005841/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/908 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref> |For a translator at work on an English-language version of Italian literature. |1991–2000 |Inactive |- |Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/912 |title=Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement |publisher=PEN American Center |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019032316/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/912 |archive-date=2012-10-19 }}</ref> |To a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990222/23888-willen-wins-pen-klein-award-.html |title=Willen Wins PEN/Klein Award |website=Publishers Weekly |date=February 22, 2009 |access-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref> |1971–2000 |Inactive |- |Roger Klein Award for Editing<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/911 |title=Roger Klein Award for Editing Winners |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019004928/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/911 |archive-date=October 19, 2012 }}</ref> |An honor "given [every two years] to an outstanding editor in trade hardcover publishing."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/books/pen-awards-given-to-2-publishing-figures.html |title=P.E.N. Awards Given To 2 Publishing Figures |date=November 27, 1984 |access-date=August 29, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> |1971–2000 |Inactive |}
==PEN/Faulkner Foundation== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction |To the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. |1981 |Active |- |PEN/Malamud Award |Honors "excellence in the art of the short story." |1988 |Active |}
==PEN Center USA== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Annual Literary Awards<ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/09/pen-center-usa-2011-awards-to-feature-dave-eggers-robert-pinksy.html |title=PEN Center USA 2011 awards to feature Dave Eggers, Robert Pinksy |newspaper=LA Times |first=Carolyn |last=Kellogg |access-date=August 29, 2012 |date=September 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penusa.org/awards |title=PEN Center USA Awards Center |publisher=PEN Center USA |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=October 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029135503/http://www.penusa.org/awards |url-status=dead }}</ref> |Awards presented in 12 categories: Lifetime Achievement, Award of Honor, Freedom to Write, First Amendment, Award of Merit, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Research Nonfiction, Poetry, Children's and Young Adult Literature, Translation, Journalism, Drama, Teleplay, Screenplay, UC Press Exceptional First Book Award. |2000 |Active |}
==PEN New England (today PEN America Boston)== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award |To honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject. |1975 |Active |- |PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel |To a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. |1976 |Active |- |PEN Song Lyrics Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/lyrics/ |title=PEN/Song Lyrics Award |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref> |to a singer songwriter, for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence |2012 |Active |- |Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/news-noteworthy/vasyl-stus |title=Vasyl Stus Freedom-to-Write Award |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211235327/http://www.pen-ne.org/news-noteworthy/vasyl-stus |archive-date=February 11, 2012 }}</ref> |Recognizes a writer persecuted for the peaceful expression of their views and whose courage in the face of censorship and oppression is exemplary. |(?) |Active |- |Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/susan-p-bloom-childrens-book-discovery-award |title=Susan P. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911171159/http://www.pen-ne.org/susan-p-bloom-childrens-book-discovery-award |archive-date=September 11, 2011 }}</ref> |Given to a New England resident for an unpublished work in one of four categories of children’s literature: picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction. |(?) |Active |- |Henry David Thoreau Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/henry-david-thoreau-prize |title=Henry David Thoreau Prize |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422001558/http://www.pen-ne.org/henry-david-thoreau-prize |url-status=dead }}</ref> |Awarded annually to a writer demonstrating literary excellence in nature writing. |(?) |Active |- |Friend to Writers Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/friend-to-writers-award |title=Friend to Writers Award |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911171126/http://www.pen-ne.org/friend-to-writers-award |archive-date=September 11, 2011 }}</ref> |To one individual and one organization whose commitment to a culture of literature and the free and open exchange of ideas personifies PEN’s core mission. |(?) |Active |- |Howard Zinn Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen-ne.org/the-howard-zinn-award |title=The Howard Zinn Award |publisher=PEN New England |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422001558/http://www.pen-ne.org/the-howard-zinn-award |url-status=dead }}</ref> |Presented to an American writer for speaking truth to power. |(?) |Active |}
==PEN Oakland== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award<ref name=oakland>{{cite web|url=http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html |title=PEN Oakland Awards |access-date=August 29, 2012 |publisher=PEN Oakland |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104092227/http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html |archive-date=January 4, 2013 }}</ref> |In order to "promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multi-cultural work." |1989 |Active |- |PEN Oakland/Censorship Award<ref name=oakland/> |Honors authors of literature of conscience who may have suffered censorship, efforts to discredit or failure to distribute/review their work based on philosophical or cultural content. |1997 |Active |- |PEN Oakland/Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name=oakland/> |In honor of PEN Oakland Vice President Reginald Lockett who died in 2008. |2006 |Active |}
==English PEN== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |PEN Pinter Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-pinter-prize/ |title=PEN Pinter Prize |publisher=English PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref> |Awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’. |2009 |Active |- |Golden PEN Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |title=Golden Pen Award |publisher=English PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=June 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615091232/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden-pen-award-for-a-lifetimes-distinguished-service-to-literature/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |A Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature is presented annually to a British Writer. |1993 |Active |- |PEN Heaney Prize (delivered as a partnership with Irish PEN)<ref>{{Cite web |title=PEN Heaney Prize |url=https://www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-heaney-prize/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=English PEN}}</ref> |Awarded annually to a single volume of poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships. |2024 |Active |- |PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/hessell-tiltman-prize/ |title=Hessell-Tiltman Prize |publisher=English PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=February 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213171018/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/hessell-tiltman-prize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |Awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content. Entrants, which may include first British translations, are to be books of high literary merit – that is, not primarily written for the academic market – and can cover all historical periods up to and including the Second World War. |2002 |Active |- |PEN Ackerley Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/penackerley-prize/ |title=PEN/Ackerley Prize |publisher=English PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=June 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626053239/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/penackerley-prize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> |To a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year, for which it is felt that J.R. Ackerley would have expressed enthusiasm. |1982 |Active |- |PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Px9s1oIjj88C&pg=PA24 |chapter=Awards and Prizes |title=The Facts On File Companion to the British Short Story |author=Andrew Maunder |publisher=Infobase Publishing |year=2007 |page=24|isbn=9780816074969 }}</ref> |Awarded annually to a collection of short stories. |1985–2001(?) |Inactive |}
==Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Irish PEN Award |To honour an Irish-born writer who has made an outstanding contribution to Irish Literature. |1999 |Active |- |PEN Heaney Prize (delivered as a partnership with English PEN)<ref>{{Cite web |title=PEN Heaney Prize |url=https://www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-heaney-prize/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=English PEN}}</ref> |Awarded annually to a single volume of poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships. |2024 |Active |}
==Catalan PEN Club== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Free Voice Prize |Is awarded to an author who has suffered imprisonment or persecution because of their writing. |2010 |Active |}
==Portuguese PEN Club== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Portuguese PEN Club Prize <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=22&idi=23172&idl=2 |title=Speech delivered by the President of the Republic at the award Ceremony of the Portuguese PEN Club Literary Prizes |author=Portuguese Society of Authors |date=15 December 2008 |publisher=Presidency of the Portuguese Republic |access-date=September 2, 2012}}</ref> |Awards in four categories: Prose Fiction/Novel, Poetry, Essay and Literary Translation. |1980 |Active |}
==International PEN== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Oxfam Novib/PEN Award |To recognise writers who have been persecuted for their work and continue working despite the consequences. |2001 |Active |- |David T.K. Wong Prize for Short Fiction <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/davidtkwongprize/ |title=David T.K.Wong Prize |publisher=English PEN |access-date=2012-09-02 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511232928/http://www.englishpen.org/prizes/davidtkwongprize/ |archive-date=11 May 2008 }}</ref> |Unpublished stories, written in English, submitted through any worldwide PEN center. Awarded bi-annually. |2000/1 to 2004/5 |Inactive |}
==Sydney PEN== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Sydney PEN Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pen.org.au/about-us/sydney-pen-award |title=The Sydney PEN Award |publisher=Sydney PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317135810/http://pen.org.au/about-us/sydney-pen-award |archive-date=March 17, 2012 }}</ref> |Presented annually to a Sydney PEN member who has worked especially hard to promote the Centre’s values and the PEN Charter. |2006 |Active |- |PEN Keneally Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pen.org.au/about-us/pen-keneally-award |title=PEN Keneally Award |publisher=Sydney PEN |access-date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317153228/http://pen.org.au/about-us/pen-keneally-award |archive-date=March 17, 2012 }}</ref> |For recognizing an achievement in promoting freedom of expression, international understanding and access to literature. |2004 |Active |}
==PEN Centre Germany== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Hermann Kesten Prize |Presented annually for outstanding efforts in support of persecuted writers. |1985 |Active |}
==Hungarian PEN Club== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize |Presented to an international poet whose oeuvre fits into the mainstream of European culture. |2012 |Active |}
==Norsk PEN== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%;" |- ! Award ! Description ! Founded ! Status |- |Ossietzky Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://norskpen.no/en_GB/ossietzkyprisen/ |title=Ossietzky Prize |website=norskpen.no |access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref> |For outstanding achievements within the field of freedom of expression |2001 |Active |}
==See also== {{Portal|Literature}} *List of literary awards
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://pen.org/literary-awards/ PEN America Literary Awards] ** Web archive: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120829040345/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1351 PEN American Center], awards page (2012) ** Web archive: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090730023801/http://www.penusa.org/awards PEN Center USA], awards page (2009) * [https://www.englishpen.org/prizes-about/ English PEN: Prizes]
* PEN literary awards PEN litereary