The PEN American Center announced the winners and runners up for the 2011 PEN Literary Awards. This year PEN will present 17 awards, fellowships, grants and prizes. Winners and runners-up will be honored at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on October 12 in New York City. You can find a complete list of 2011 PEN Literary Award winners here. Highlights include:
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000): Shared by Susanna Daniel for Stiltsville (Harper Perennial) and Danielle Evans for Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead)
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000): Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner)
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career ($10,000): Aleksandar Hemon
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000): Robert Perkinson for Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000): Shared by Susanna Daniel for Stiltsville (Harper Perennial) and Danielle Evans for Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead)
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000): Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner)
PEN/W.G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career ($10,000): Aleksandar Hemon
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000): Robert Perkinson for Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books)