Winners were announced for this year's PEN Center USA Awards, which recognize the best writing in the western U.S. The winning writers in each category receive $1,000 and will be honored November 16 at the Literary Awards Festival in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 2015 PEN Center USA Award winners are:
Fiction: Bridge by Robert Thomas (BOA Editions)
Creative nonfiction: The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum (FSG)
YA/children's: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (Candlewick)
Poetry: Citizen by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf)
UC Press first book: Reading Basquiat by Jordana Moore Saggese
Graphic literature innovator: G. Willow Wilson
Research nonfiction: Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk (Penguin)
Translation: Ainsley Morse and Peter Golub for Anatomical Theater by Andrei Sen-Senkov (Zephyr)
Drama: Arlington by Victor Lodato
Journalism: Daniel Alarcón for "The Contestant" (California Sunday Magazine)
Screenplay: The Imitation Game by Graham Moore
Teleplay: Noah Hawley for "The Crocodile's Dilemma" (Fargo)
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. The First Amendment Award will go to John Kiriakou and the Award of Honor to ProPublica.
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Finalists for the 2015 Canadian Children's Book Centre awards can be viewed here. Winners will be announced at the TD Canadian Children's Literature Awards and Prix TD de littérature canadienne pour l'enfance et la jeunesse in Toronto on November 10. Overall, C$135,000 (about US$101,780) in prize money will be awarded.
