PEN Literary Awards 2014 winners announced

1 August 2014 Books+Publishing

PEN America has announced winners for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards. The unpublished novel ‘And West is West’ by Ron Childress has won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, worth US$25,000 (A$26,900), which includes a publishing contract with Algonquin Books. Among the other winners were: Critical Mass (James Wolcott, Doubleday), which won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; and High Price (Carl Hart, Viking), which won the PEN/E O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Winners will be honoured at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony in New York City on 29 September. The PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize, worth US$25,000, will also be announced at the ceremony, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, worth US$25,000 will be announced in early September. A full list of awards recipients is available here.

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