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{{Infobox award | name = PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award | awarded_for = Honoring writers who fought for the right to freedom of expression in the face of adversity. | country = United States | sponsor = PEN America }}
The PEN America Literary Awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.<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=Alfred Bendixen |year=2005 |page=689 |isbn=9780826417770 |access-date=February 22, 2018 |archive-date=February 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224194004/https://books.google.com/books?id=LyJqIfNPSgcC&pg=PA689 |url-status=live }}</ref> The awards are among many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
Many of the awards once presented by the PEN American Center (today PEN America) are no longer issued, including those listed below.
== PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (1987–2015) == The '''PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pen.org/penbarbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award/ |title=PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=February 21, 2018 |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318012151/https://pen.org/penbarbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was an award that honored writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barbaragoldsmith.com/newsletter.htm?newsletter= |title=Freedom to Write |publisher=Barbara Goldsmith |access-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720235231/http://www.barbaragoldsmith.com/newsletter.htm?newsletter= |url-status=live }}</ref> Established in 1987, the award was administered by PEN American Center and underwritten by PEN trustee Barbara Goldsmith. The last award was in 2015; its successor is the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, established in 2016 and honoring writers who were imprisoned for their work.
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner !Year !Winner !Country !Ref. |- | rowspan="2" |1987 |{{ill|Nizametdin Akhmetov|ba|Әхмәтов Низаметдин Шәмсетдин улы|ru|Ахметов, Низаметдин Шамсутдинович}} |Soviet Union | |- |{{sortname|last=Manaka|first=Matsemela}} |South Africa | |- | rowspan="2" |1988 |{{sortname|last=Kinyatti|first=Maina wa}} |Kenya | |- |{{sortname|last=Toer|first=Pramoedya Ananta}} |Indonesia | |- | rowspan="2" |1989 |Martha Kuwee Kumsa |Ethiopia | |- |{{sortname|last=Thiện|first=Nguyễn Chí}} |Vietnam | |- | rowspan="2" |1990 |{{sortname|last=Dao|first=Bei}} |China | |- |{{sortname|last=Mapanje|first=Jack}} |Malawi | |- | rowspan="2" |1991 |{{sortname|last=Serfaty|first=Abraham}} |Morocco | |- |{{sortname|last=Valencia|first=Francisco}} |El Salvador | |- | rowspan="2" |1992 |{{sortname|last=Paul|first=Jean Mario}} |Haiti | |- |{{sortname|last=Selvanithy |first=Thiagarajah}} (“Selvi”) |Sri Lanka | |- | rowspan="3" |1993 |{{sortname|last=Mutic|first=Zoran}} |Bosnia | |- |{{sortname|last=Nayouf|first=Nizar}} |Syria | |- |{{sortname|last=Slapšak|first=Svetlana}} |Serbia | |- | rowspan="2" |1994 |Đoàn Viết Hoạt |Vietnam | |- |{{sortname|last=Polat|first=Edip}} |Turkey | |- | rowspan="2" |1995 |{{sortname|last=Restano Díaz|first=Yndamiro}} |Cuba | |- |San San Nweh |Myanmar (Burma) | |- | rowspan="2" |1996 |{{sortname|last=Thida|first=Ma}} |Myanmar (Burma) | |- |Anonymous |Africa | |- | rowspan="2" |1997 |{{sortname|last=Agbroko|first=Godwin}} |Nigeria | |- |{{sortname|last=Zarakolu|first=Ayşe Nur}} |Turkey | |- | rowspan="2" |1998 |{{sortname|last=Ifowodo|first=Ogaga}} |Nigeria | |- |{{sortname|last=Jingsheng|first=Liu}} |China | |- | rowspan="2" |1999 |{{sortname|last=Bayrakdar|first=Faraj}} |Syria | |- |{{ill|Eşber Yağmurdereli|tr|Eşber Yağmurdereli |ar|أشبرلي ياغمور درالي}} |Turkey | |- | rowspan="2" |2000 |{{sortname|last=Brovina|first=Flora}} |Kosovo | |- |{{sortname|last=Deyun|first=Xue}} |China | |- | rowspan="2" |2001 |{{sortname|last=Lahiji|first=Shahla}} |Iran | |- |{{ill|Mamadali Mahmudov|uz|Mamadali Mahmudov|ru|Махмудов, Мамадали|fr|Mamadali Mahmoudov}} |Uzbekistan | |- | rowspan="2" |2002 |{{sortname|last=Myint|first=Aung}} |Myanmar (Burma) | |- |{{sortname|last=Tunyaz|first=Tohti}} |Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China | |- | rowspan="2" |2003 |{{sortname|last=Padrón|first=Bernardo Arévalo}} |Cuba | |- |{{sortname|last=Yahyaoui|first=Zouhair}} |Tunisia | |- | rowspan="2" |2004 |{{sortname ill|Lê Chí|Quang|vi}} |Vietnam | |- |{{sortname|last=Zarafshan|first=Nasser}} |Iran | |- | rowspan="2" |2005 |{{sortname ill|Ali al|Domaini|ar|علي الدميني}} |Saudi Arabia | |- |{{sortname|last=Hydara|first=Deyda}} |Gambia | |- | rowspan="2" |2006 |{{sortname|last=Benchicou|first=Mohammad}} |Algeria | |- |{{sortname ill|Rakhim|Esenov|ru|Эсенов, Рахим Махтумович}} |Turkmenistan | |- |2007 |{{sortname|last=Hernández González|first=Normando}} |Cuba | |- |2008 |{{sortname|last=Tongyan|first=Yang}} |China | |- |2009 |{{sortname|last=Xiaobo|first=Liu}} |China | |- |2010 |Nay Phone Latt |Burma | |- |2011 |{{sortname|last=Sotoudeh|first=Nasrin}} |Iran | |- |2012 |{{sortname|last=Nega|first=Eskinder}} |Ethiopia |<ref name="bw2012-05-02">{{Cite news |last=Spielmann |first=Peter James |date=May 2, 2012 |title=PEN honors jailed Ethiopian journalist |newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek |url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UGJ5RO0.htm |access-date=2012-05-04 |archive-date=August 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831114734/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UGJ5RO0.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- |2013 |{{sortname|last=Berktay|first=Ayşe}} |Turkey |<ref>{{cite web |date=April 18, 2013 |title=Top PEN Prize to jailed Turkish translator, writer and activist Ayşe Berktay |url=http://www.ceatl.eu/archives/2013/04/18/4340 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407073432/http://www.ceatl.eu/archives/2013/04/18/4340 |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |access-date=April 1, 2014 |publisher=European Council of Literary Translators' Associations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 16, 2013 |title=Jailed Translator Receives PEN Prize |url=http://www.bianet.org/english/human-rights/145881-jailed-translator-receives-pen-prize |access-date=April 1, 2014 |work=Bianet |archive-date=December 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208175129/http://bianet.org/english/human-rights/145881-jailed-translator-receives-pen-prize |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |2014 |{{sortname|last=Tohti|first=Ilham}} |Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China |<ref>{{cite web |date=March 31, 2014 |title=Tohti to Receive PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61654-tohti-to-receive-pen-barbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award.html |access-date=April 1, 2014 |work=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=January 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119114828/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/61654-tohti-to-receive-pen-barbara-goldsmith-freedom-to-write-award.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=April 1, 2014 |title=China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBREA300LL20140401 |access-date=April 1, 2014 |work=Reuters |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306161919/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-idUSBREA300LL20140401 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |2015 |{{sortname|last=Ismayilova|first=Khadija}} |Azerbaijan |<ref>{{cite web |author=David M. Herszenhorn |date=April 15, 2015 |title=Jailed Azerbaijani Journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, to Be Honored by PEN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/world/europe/azerbaijan-khadija-ismayilova-to-get-pen-press-freedom-award.html?_r=0 |access-date=April 19, 2015 |work=New York Times |archive-date=September 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929093315/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/world/europe/azerbaijan-khadija-ismayilova-to-get-pen-press-freedom-award.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> |}
==PEN/Steven Kroll Award (2012–2014)== The '''PEN/Steven Kroll Award'''<ref>{{cite web |title=PEN/Steven Kroll Award Honoring the Author of an Illustrated Children’s Book |url=https://pen.org/literary-awards/pen-steven-kroll-award/ |website=PEN America |access-date=April 3, 2026}}</ref> was awarded by the PEN American Center "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers."<ref name=PEN>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2144|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627002747/https://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2144|url-status=dead|title=PEN American Center Literary Awards|archive-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> Established in memory of Steven Kroll, a former PEN Trustee and Chair of PEN's Children's/Young Adult Book Authors Committee, this honor was awarded for the first time in 2012 for a book published in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/47333-pen-steven-kroll-award-announced.html |title=PEN/Steven Kroll Award Announced |work=Publishers Weekly |date=May 19, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-date=May 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522183615/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/47333-pen-steven-kroll-award-announced.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/890716-312/pen__american_center_establishes.html.csp |title=PEN American Center Establishes Steven Kroll Award |date=May 20, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |work=School Library Journal |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201214120/http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/890716-312/pen__american_center_establishes.html.csp |url-status=live }}</ref> The last award was given in 2014.
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+PEN/Steven Kroll Award winners !Year !Author !Title !Ref. |- |2012 |{{sortname|first=Patricia C.|last=McKissack}} |''Never Forgotten'' | |- |2013 |{{sortname|first=Michelle|last=Markel}} |''{{sortname|1=The|2=Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau|nolink=1}}'' |<ref>{{cite web |author=Carolyn Kellogg |date=August 14, 2013 |title=Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards |url=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-pen-announces-winners-of-its-2013-awards-20130814,0,5632674.story |access-date=August 14, 2013 |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=August 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816025317/http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-pen-announces-winners-of-its-2013-awards-20130814,0,5632674.story |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |2014 |{{sortname|first=Bil|last=Lepp}} |''{{sortname|1=The|2= King of Little Things|nolink=1}}'' |<ref>{{cite web |date=April 16, 2014 |title=2014 PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing |url=http://www.pen.org/literature/2014-pensteven-kroll-award-picture-book-writing |access-date=August 1, 2014 |work=PEN America |archive-date=July 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712082108/http://www.pen.org/literature/2014-pensteven-kroll-award-picture-book-writing |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ron Charles |author-link=Ron Charles (critic) |date=July 30, 2014 |title=Winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/30/winners-of-the-2014-pen-literary-awards/ |access-date=August 1, 2014 |archive-date=May 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509075051/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/07/30/winners-of-the-2014-pen-literary-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |}
==PEN/W.G. Sebald Award (2010–2011)== The '''PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career''' was awarded by the PEN American Center to honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pen.org/literary-award/penw-g-sebald-award-for-a-fiction-writer-in-mid-career/|title=PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career|date=December 18, 2014|access-date=September 20, 2019|archive-date=September 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920120157/https://pen.org/literary-award/penw-g-sebald-award-for-a-fiction-writer-in-mid-career/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+PEN/W.G. Sebald Award winners !Year !Author !Ref. |- |2010 |{{sortname|first=Susan|last=Choi}} |''<ref>{{cite web |author=PATRICIA COHEN |date=September 24, 2010 |title=ARTSBEAT; PEN Presents Awards |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01EED8113EF937A1575AC0A9669D8B63 |access-date=August 11, 2012 |work=New York Times |archive-date=February 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202211840/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01EED8113EF937A1575AC0A9669D8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref>'' |- |2011 |{{sortname|first=Aleksander|last=Hemon}} |<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Stacey Mickelbart |date=August 11, 2011 |title=The 2011 PEN Honorees in The New Yorker |url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/08/2011-pen-awards.html |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-date=June 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609200855/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/08/2011-pen-awards.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |} ==PEN Emerging Writers Awards (2011)== {{anchor|PEN Emerging Writers Awards}}The '''PEN Emerging Writers Awards''' was awarded by the PEN American Center. It was awarded to up-and-coming authors whose writing had been featured in distinguished literary journals, but had not published book-length works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2171|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120627003205/https://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2171|url-status=dead|title=PEN American Center Literary Awards|archive-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> Three prizes were awarded: one fiction, one nonfiction, and one poetry. Candidates were nominated only by editors from print and online journals. Participating journals for 2011 included: ''6 x 6'', ''A Public Space'', ''Bloom'', ''Colorado Review'', ''Creative Nonfiction'', ''Fence'', ''Gargoyle'', ''Glimmer Train'', ''Guernica'', ''Harvard Review'', ''jubilat'', ''Kenyon Review'', ''Lungfull!'', ''New York Quarterly'', ''One Story'', ''The Oxford American'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Rain Taxi'', ''Spinning Jenny'', and ''Tin House''.
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+PEN Emerging Writers Awards winners !Year !Category !Author !Ref. |- | rowspan="3" |2011 |Fiction |{{sortname|first=Adam|last=Day}} |<ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=August 11, 2011 |title=Jacket Copy: PEN American Center's 2011 award winners |newspaper=LA Times |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/pen-american-centers-2011-awards.html |access-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-date=December 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210011517/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/pen-american-centers-2011-awards.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |Poetry |{{sortname|first=Smith|last=Henderson}} |<ref name=":0" /> |- |Nonfiction |{{sortname|first=David Stuart|last=McLean}} |<ref name=":0" /> |}
==PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award (2000)== The '''PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award''' was given to unpublished writers who submit original short story manuscripts. Each manuscript competed for a $10,000 cash grant and publication at Amazon.com and in ''The Boston Book Review''. Award was active for one year.<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 |archive-date=October 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008013637/http://www.writenews.com/2000/020900_amazon_pen.htm |url-status=live }}</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>
==Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts (2000–2001)== The '''Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts''' was presented for literary writing on the visual arts.<ref>{{cite news |author=McGee |first=Celia |date=November 12, 2012 |title=Mehta Merge Master at Knopf |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1999/11/12/mehta-merge-master-at-knopf/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=New York Daily News}}</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> It was active two years 2000–2001.
==Gregory Kolovakos Award (1992–2004)== The '''Gregory Kolovakos Award'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/287|title=PEN American Center - Gregory Kolovakos Award|date=October 30, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051030233401/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/287|archive-date=October 30, 2005}}</ref> was a literary award given every three years by PEN American Center 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". It was primarily intended to recognize translations into English from Spanish, but translations from other Hispanic languages were also eligible. Gregory Kolovakos was a graduate of Yale University and served as the director of the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts for many years. He was also the founding executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1985. The monetary amount of the Award was USD $2000. The prize was first given in 1992.
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+Gregory Kolovakos Award winners !Year !Author |- |1992 |{{sortname|first=Eliot|last=Weinberger}} |- |1998 |{{sortname|first=Johannes|last=Wilbert}} |- | rowspan="2" |2001 |{{sortname|first=Gregory|last=Rabassa}} |- |{{sortname|first=Alastair|last=Reid|dab=poet}} |- | rowspan="3" |2004 |{{sortname|first=Cola|last=Franzen}} |- |{{sortname|first=Robert M.|last=Laughlin}} |- |{{sortname|first=Alexander|last=Taylor|nolink=1}} |}
==Jerard Fund Award (2001–2005)== The '''Jerard Fund Award''' honored 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, it was active from 2001 to 2005.<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>
==Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir (1998–2006)== The '''Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir''' was presented for a first published memoir. It was active from 1998 to 2006.<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>
==Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction (1989–2006)== The '''Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction''' was presented for an American author's first-published book of general nonfiction. It was active from 1989 to 2006.<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>
==PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award (1993–2006)== The '''PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award''' was an award presented annually from 1993 to 2006 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/press-release/2004/04/05/pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award-recipient-announced |title=PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award recipient announced |work=PEN American Center |date=April 5, 2004 |access-date=January 2, 2013 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306020229/http://www.pen.org/press-release/2004/04/05/pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award-recipient-announced |url-status=live }}</ref> Sponsored by PEN American Center and Newman's Own, a cash prize of $20,000 was awarded. It was active from 1993 to 2006.
===Winners=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award winners !Year !Author !Description !Ref. |- |1993 |{{sortname|first=Claudia|last=Johnson|nolink=1}} |Restored literary classics - including Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'', Chaucer's ''The Miller's Tale'', and Aristophanes's ''Lysistrata'' — that had been banned from Florida classrooms; defended student production of ''A Raisin in the Sun''. |<ref>{{cite news |last=Clifford |first=Dorothy |date=September 13, 1994 |title=Censor's Foe: Claudia Johnson is Dynamic Fighter for Literary Classics and Free Speech |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/tallahassee-democrat-censors-foe-claud/170530239/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |- |1994 |{{sortname|first=Carole|last=Marlowe}} |Arizona drama teacher who resisted district censorship of a play selected for student production. | |- |1995 |{{sortname|first=Joyce|last=Meskis}} |Denver bookstore owner who successfully challenged a Colorado law barring stores open to children from selling novels and art books with sexual content, and who continued to sell Salman Rushdie's ''The Satanic Verses'' in 1989, donating 25% of proceeds to anticensorship organizations. | |- |1996 |{{sortname|first=Cissy|last=Lacks}} |Missouri high school Creative Writing teacher fired for "failure to censor her students' creative expression." | |- |1997 |{{sortname|first=Nancy Hsu|last=Fleming}} |Defeated a corporation's attempt to silence her written concerns about possible groundwater contamination caused by a local landfill. | |- |1998 |{{sortname|first=Terrilyn|last=Simpson}} |Maine writer and journalist harassed for her attempts to cover local industrial health hazards. | |- |1999 |{{sortname|first=Releah|last=Lent}} |Florida high school teacher and student newspaper advisor who has struggled to defend literature in the classroom and press freedom for students. | |- |2000 |{{sortname|first=William|last=Holda}} |President, Kilgore College, who defended the production of Tony Kushner's play ''Angels in America'' in Kilgore, Texas. | |- | rowspan="2" |2001 |{{sortname|first=Deloris|last=Wilson}} |High school librarian in West Monroe, Louisiana who fought to preserve access to library materials banned for sexual content. |<ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=April 20, 2001 |title=Ordinary Heroes: Two ACLU Clients to Receive the 2001 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award |url=https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/ordinary-heroes-two-aclu-clients-receive-2001-pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award |access-date=August 28, 2012 |publisher=American Civil Liberties Union |archive-date=August 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814202127/http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/ordinary-heroes-two-aclu-clients-receive-2001-pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{sortname|first=Alberto|last=Sarrain}} |Cuban-émigré theater producer who challenged Miami-Dade County's ban on public funding to arts organizations performing work by artists currently living in Cuba. |<ref name=":1" /> |- |2002 |{{sortname|first=Vanessa|last=Leggett}} |Freelance writer who was jailed in a federal detention center in Texas for 168 days for refusing to bow to a sweeping subpoena of confidential source materials. | |- |2003 |{{sortname|first=Jerilynn Adams|last=Williams}} |Texas librarian who successfully turned back an attempt to remove books from circulation at Montgomery County public libraries. | |- |2004 |{{sortname|first=Barbara Parsons|last=Lane}} |One of eight incarcerated writers who were sued by the State of Connecticut after contributing to Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters, a moving anthology of stories and essays by women who participated in a creative writing workshop led by Wally Lamb at York Correctional Institute. | |- |2005 |{{sortname|first=Joan|last=Airoldi}} |Librarian and library director in rural Washington state who challenged an FBI effort to search patron records under the Library Awareness Program. |<ref>{{cite news |last=Airoldi |first=Joan |date=May 17, 2005 |title=Librarian's brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-17-librarian-edit_x.htm |access-date=2007-04-16 |archive-date=May 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504191743/http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-17-librarian-edit_x.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |2006 |{{sortname|first=Sibel|last=Edmonds}} |Translator who was fired from her job at the FBI after complaining of intelligence failures and poor performance in her unit. | |}
==PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award (2008)== The '''PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award''' was presented for only one year. It was meant to given 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/press-release/2008/04/11/va-nurse-receive-2008-penkatherine-anne-porter-first-amendment-award |title=V.A. Nurse to Receive 2008 PEN/Katherine Anne Porter First Amendment Award |work=PEN American Center |date=April 11, 2008 |access-date=January 2, 2013 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201432/http://www.pen.org/press-release/2008/04/11/va-nurse-receive-2008-penkatherine-anne-porter-first-amendment-award |url-status=live }}</ref> Sponsored by PEN American Center and Katherine Anne Porter Foundation, the award included a cash prize of US$10,000. The award succeeded the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award which was last awarded in 2006. The award was given in 2008 only.
===Winner=== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" !Year !Author !Description !Ref. |- |2008 |{{sortname|first=Laura|last=Berg|nolink=1}} |Psychiatric nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital who faced an investigation into possible charges of sedition when she wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper which was critical of George W. Bush. |<ref>{{cite news |date=April 27, 2008 |title=Laura Berg's Letter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27sun3.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023000442/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27sun3.html |archive-date=October 23, 2013 |access-date=August 28, 2012 |work=New York Times}}</ref> |} ==Renato Poggioli Translation Award (1991–2000)== The '''Renato Poggioli Translation Award''' was for a translator at work on an English-language version of Italian literature. Active from 1991 to {{circa}} 2000.<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>
==Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement (1971–2000)== The '''Roger Klein Award for Career Achievement''' was presented to a trade book editor every two years for "distinguished editorial achievement." It was active from 1971 to {{circa}} 2000.<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=October 19, 2012 }}</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 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |date=February 22, 2009 |access-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref>
==Roger Klein Award for Editing== The '''Roger Klein Award for Editing''' was an honor "given [every two years] to an outstanding editor in trade hardcover publishing."<ref>{{cite web |date=November 27, 1984 |title=P.E.N. Awards Given To 2 Publishing Figures |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/books/pen-awards-given-to-2-publishing-figures.html |access-date=August 29, 2012 |work=New York Times |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524160347/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/books/pen-awards-given-to-2-publishing-figures.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was active from 1971 to {{circa}} 2000.<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>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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