PEN President ANDREW SOLOMON and Awards Committee Chair MONIQUE TRUONG present the

MASTER OF CEREMONIES JAMES HANNAHAM THE NEW SCHOOL THE AUDITORIUM, 66 WEST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 6:30 PM, RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

PEN wishes to thank tonight’s presenters who represent PEN’s diverse membership of novelists, poets, translators, journalists, and literary citizens, as well as all of this year’s dedicated judges. To read the judges’ full citations for this year’s winners, please visit PEN.org.

WELCOME REMARKS OPENING ADDRESS Luis Jaramillo Andrew Solomon Director, School of Writing President The New School PEN American Center

2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony

MASTER OF CEREMONIES James Hannaham

PRESENTERS Marie Howe Theresa Rebeck Damion Searls Parul Sehgal Monique Truong

CLOSING REMARKS Suzanne Nossel Executive Director PEN American Center congratulates

Ian Buruma author of THEATER OF CRUELTY: ART, FILM, AND THE SHADOWS OF WAR selected as a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Peter Bush translator of THE GRAY NOTEBOOK by Josep Pla on being shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize

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2 TRANSLATION AWARDS

PEN/RALPH MANHEIM MEDAL FOR TRANSLATION For a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work.

WINNER Burton Watson

“For the inventor of classical East Asian poetry for our time. His work inspires us now, and into the future.” —From the PEN Translation Committee’s citation

PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION For a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2014.

WINNER Eliza Griswold for her translation from the Pashto of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

“Their landays–couplets passed on anonymously by ancient tradition, now shared through covert phone calls and social media–serve as testimony, snapshots of otherwise hidden subjectivities, and politically vivid, feminist texts” —From the judge’s citation: Ana Božičević

3 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS congratulates

BURTON WATSON, scholar and translator of Chinese and Japanese literature, on receiving a lifetime achievement award 2015 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

“Burton Watson’s lifelong dedication to Chinese literature becomes a gift to us all.” —Gary Snyder

“Translation of any of the classics . . . from the hand of Burton Watson is an event to be welcomed with gratitude.” —Journal of Asian Studies

4 CUP.COLUMBIA.EDU · CUPBLOG.ORG TRANSLATION AWARDS

PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2014.

WINNER Denise Newman for her translation from the Danish of Baboon by Naja Marie Aidt (Two Lines Press)

“One can imagine the challenge of conveying the psychological depths just barely concealed beneath Aidt’s measured words, and Newman accomplishes this feat with remarkable skill. It is impossible to miss the urgency and deep hu- manity of each of these stories.” —From the judges’ citation: Heather Cleary, Lucas Klein, Tess Lewis, and Allison Markin Powell

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX congratulates our 2015 PEN Literary Awards winners and finalists

I Am the Beggar of the World Translated by ELIZA GRISWOLD with photographs by Seamus Murphy Winner of the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

The Queen’s Bed ANNA WHITELOCK Winner of the 2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

The Dog Breathturn into The Symmetry Teacher JACK LIVINGS Timestead ANDREI BITOV Finalist for the PAUL CELAN Translated by PEN/Robert W. Bingham Translated by POLLY GANNON Prize for Debut Fiction PIERRE JORIS Finalist for the Finalist for the PEN Translation Prize PEN Award for Poetry in Translation www.fsgbooks.com

5 TRANSLATION AWARDS

PEN/HEIM TRANSLATION FUND GRANTS ($2,000-$4,000) To support the translation of book-length works into English. Judges: Esther Allen, Mitzi Angel, Peter Blackstock, Howard Goldblatt, Sara Khalili, Michael F. Moore*, Declan Spring, and Alex Zucker (*Voting Chair of the PEN/Heim Advisory Board)

WINNERS Allison Charette Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo From the French (Available for Publication) Jennifer Croft The Books of Jacob by From the Polish (Available for Publication) Stephan Delbos The Absolute Gravedigger by Vítězslav Nezval From the Czech (Forthcoming from Twisted Spoon Press) Amanda DeMarco New Inventions and the Latest Innovations by Gaston de Pawlowski From the French (Forthcoming from Wakefield Press) Adriana Jacobs The Truffle Eye by Vaan Nguyen From the Hebrew (Available for Publication) Roy Kesey The Cousins by Aurora Venturini From the Spanish (Available for Publication) Lee Klein Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador by Horacio Castellanos Moya From the Spanish (Available for Publication)

6 TRANSLATION AWARDS

Dong Li The Gleaner Song—Selected Poems by Song Lin by Song Lin From the Mandarin Chinese (Available for Publication) Meg Matich Cold Moons by Magnús Sigurðsson From the Icelandic (Available for Publication) Jacob Moe Part Time Dragons by Maria Mitsora From the Greek (Forthcoming from Press) Rajiv Mohabir Holi Songs of Demerara by Lalbihari Sharma From the Awadhi/Bhojpuri Hindi (Available for Publication) Takami Nieda GO by Kazuki Kaneshiro From the Japanese (Available for Publication) Zoë Perry Opisanie Świata by Veronica Stigger From the Portuguese (Available for Publication) Will Schutt The Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti by Edoardo Sanguineti From the Italian (Available for Publication) Sophie Seita Subsisters. Selected Poems by Uljana Wolf From the German (Forthcoming from Belladonna*) Simon Wickhamsmith The End of the Dark Era by Tseveendorjin Oidov From the Mongolian (Available for Publication)

7 BOOK AWARDS

PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD For a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical or biological sciences published in 2014.

WINNER Joshua Horwitz War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)

“Horwitz’s dogged reporting . . .combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narra- tive about the collision of technology in the name of national security and the seemingly quixotic attempt to preserve our living oceans.” —From the judges’ citation: Sue Halpern, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Carl Zimmer

HENRY HOLT & COMPANY congratulates ELIZABETH KOLBERT author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

and JONATHAN SCHUPPE author of A CHANCE TO WIN Recognized as a longlisted author for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award

8 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION To an author of a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which has been published in 2013 or 2014.

WINNER Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)

“Five Days at Memorial shows the power of narra- tive art to enable us to understand life backwards so that we might live our lives forwards with greater understanding.” —From the judges’ citation: Andrew Blechman, Paul Elie, Azadeh Moaveni, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and Paul Reyes

Crown Publishers congratulates SHERI FINK author of FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL

WINNER OF THE 2015 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD

CROWN

9 BOOK AWARDS

PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY For a distinguished biography published in 2014.

WINNER Anna Whitelock The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

“The Queen’s Bed is both a fascinating biography of one of the most powerful women in history and a spectacular portrait of an era.” —From the judges’ citation: Emily Bernard, Nicholas Fox Weber, and Jon Meacham

www.PegasusBooks.com Distributed By W. W. Norton & Company

10 BOOK AWARDS

PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING To honor a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2014.

WINNER John Branch Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard (W. W. Norton & Company)

“Through meticulous reporting and pitch perfect prose, Branch has constructed a kind of bildung- sroman, the education of a young athlete in the hard ways of life.” —From the judges’ citation: Rich Cohen, George Dohrmann, and Jonathan Mahler

P RINCETON U N IVERSITY P RESS CONGRATULATES David Bromwich Author of Moral Imagination: Essays Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

“A historically informed examination of moral imagination and human sympathy, as seen through the lives of such figures as Edmund Burke, Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” —Sewell Chan, New York Times

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11 BOOK AWARDS

PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION To an author whose debut work—a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2014—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

Judges: Caroline Fraser, Katie Kitamura, Paul La Farge, and Victor LaValle The winner will be announced during the awards ceremony.

FINALISTS Molly Antopol The UnAmericans (W. W. Norton & Company) Cynthia Bond Ruby (Hogarth) Phil Klay Redeployment (Penguin Press) Jack Livings The Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Merritt Tierce Love Me Back (Doubleday)

PEN joins the judges in congratulating all the finalists being recognized for this literary achievement. To read the judges’ citation for the winner, please visit PEN.org/awards, where you can read excerpts from all of the finalists’ works.

12 BOOK AWARDS

PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY For a book of essays published in 2014 that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.

Judges: Diane Johnson, Dahlia Lithwick, Vijay Seshadri, and Mark Slouka The winner will be announced during the awards ceremony.

FINALISTS David Bromwich Moral Imagination ( Press) Ian Buruma Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of War (New York Review Books) Charles D’Ambrosio Loitering: New and Collected Essays (Tin House Books) Leslie Jamison The Empathy Exams (Graywolf Press) Angela Pelster Limber (Sarabande Books)

PEN joins the judges in congratulating all the finalists being recognized for this literary achievement. To read the judges’ citation for the winner, please visit PEN.org/awards, where you can read excerpts from all of the finalists’ works.

13 TIN HOUSE CONGRATULATES CHARLES D’AMBROSIO Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for his essay collection, Loitering

“One of the strongest, smartest and most literate essayists practicing today. This, one would hope, is his moment. . . . These [essays] are highly polished, fi nished, exemplary performances.”

—PHILLIP LOPATE, New York Times Book Review

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Soho Press congratulates Samrat Upadhyay 2015 PEN Open Book Award Nominee

“Fearless . . . There’s an eerie element of black magic in Didi’s Svengali-like manipulation that evokes the domestic horror novels of Shirley Jackson.” —

“Reading Samrat Upadhyay’s disturbing new novel, The City Son, is the literary equivalent of watching a horror film . . . Upadhyay leaves us holding our breaths.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

On sale now in paperback www.sohopress.com

14 BOOK AWARDS

PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2014.

Judges: R. Erica Doyle, W. Ralph Eubanks, and The winner will be announced during the awards ceremony.

FINALISTS Rabih Alameddine An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press) Teju Cole Every Day Is for the Thief (Random House) Roxane Gay An Untamed State (Black Cat) Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press) Samrat Upadhyay The City Son (Soho Press)

PEN joins the judges in congratulating all the finalists being recognized for this literary achievement. To read the judges’ citation for the winner, please visit PEN.org/awards, where you can read excerpts from all of the finalists’ works.

15 McCormick Literary Congratulates Marcus Burke Kerry Howley Nominated for the Nominated for the PEN Open Book Award PEN/ESPN Award "Lucid and affecting . . . thick with poetry, Named a Best Book of 2014 dense with lines of pitch-perfect verse." by Book Review, -- Slate, Salon, and Time magazine.

Congratulations, Merritt Tierce and Jack Livings! Finalists for the 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Debut Fiction Prize

With love and admiration, Anna Stein & Aitken Alexander Associates

16 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

PEN/LAURA PELS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THEATER AWARDS Three awards which honor a Master American Dramatist, American Playwright in Mid-Career, and Emerging American Playwright.

Master American Dramatist WINNER Tina Howe

“She has broken most theatrical taboos and lived to tell the tale and in so doing shone a light unlike any other on the human spirit and the world it inhabits.” —From the judges’ citation: Kathleen Chalfant, Ellen McLaughlin, and Adam Rapp

Playwright in Mid-Career WINNER Anne Washburn

“Anne Washburn has been capturing our theatrical imaginations for well over a decade. A slippery narrative shapechanger, she never seems to write the same play twice.” —From the judges’ citation: Kathleen Chalfant, Ellen McLaughlin, and Adam Rapp

Emerging Playwright WINNER Jennifer Blackmer

“We are so pleased that with this award PEN can acknowledge an artist of Blackmer’s integrity and skill. The theater community is immensely the better for her presence among us.” —From the judges’ citation: Kathleen Chalfant, Ellen McLaughlin, and Adam Rapp

17 congratulations, saeed jones!

And congratulations to pen, for another year defending writers and their free expression.

congratulates LESLIE JAMISON The Empathy Exams finalist for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

CLAUDIA RANKINE Citizen: An American Lyric finalist for the 2015 PEN Open Book Award

www.graywolfpress.org

18 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

PEN/JOYCE OSTERWEIL AWARD FOR POETRY For an emerging American poet showing promise of further literary achievement.

WINNER Saeed Jones Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)

“We are moved by the liveness of this poet’s inven- tion, the brightness of energy, and the range of tone. The voice is irresistible.” —From the judges’ citation: Marie Howe, Mary Szybist, and Craig Morgan Teicher

PEN/PHYLLIS NAYLOR WORKING WRITER FELLOWSHIP For an author of children’s or young-adult fiction to complete a book-length work-in-progress.

WINNER Stephanie Kuehn The Pragmatist (Forthcoming from Dutton/ Penguin Books)

“The Pragmatist, with an engaging main character, precise, vivid writing, and a continuous rushing train of tensions, is a captivating thriller.” —From the judges’ citation: Viola Canales, Selene Castrovilla, and Elizabeth Levy

19 KuhnPROJECTS

Congratulates its friends and clients CHARLES M. BLOW Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Author Longlisted of for the PEN Open Book Award NICHOLAS GRIFFIN Ping-­‐Pong Diplomacy

Shortlisted Author for the PEN/ESPN of Award for Literary Sports Writing

TIN HOUSE CONGRATULATES ROB SPILLMAN

Winner of the 2015 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing

20 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

PEN/ESPN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING For a writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field.

WINNER Bob Ryan

“For almost 50 years, Bob Ryan inhabited the undu- lating emotions and demanding soul of Boston fans with a swift stream of prose that reflected passion underpinned by keen reporting.” —From the judges’ citation: Mike Barnicle, Franklin Foer, and Selena Roberts

PEN/NORA MAGID AWARD FOR EDITING For a magazine editor whose high literary taste has, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits.

WINNER Rob Spillman for Tin House

“By including a wide range of writers, seeking new and unpublished voices, and being on the forefront of the move from print to digital, Rob Spillman has created an inclusive, vibrant literary community at Tin House.” —From the judges’ citation: Christopher Castellani, Carmela Ciuraru, and Bill Clegg

PEN/FUSION EMERGING WRITERS PRIZE ($10,000) For a promising young writer under 35 for an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue.

Judges: John Freeman, Roxane Gay, and Cristina Henríquez

The winner and finalists will be announced during the awards ceremony.

21 PEN President’s Circle

The PEN President’s Circle consists of individuals who both care deeply about PEN’s work and annually make significant commitments of support. President’s Circle Members are essential partners in all PEN’s work: securing the liberty of imprisoned writers of conscience, mobilizing writers as agents for social change, and producing compelling public literary programs.

PEN President’s Circle Membership Benefits Poets­—For our most committed donors In addition to the benefits listed at the Novelists and Essayists levels: • Invitations to unique signature events (such as Hamilton the musical tickets and PEN reception, March 2015) • Invitations to one exclusive PEN President’s Circle Author’s Evening per year (such as Ayad Akhtar on Disgraced, Nov 2014) • Invitation to the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony after party with distinguished award presenters and winners

Essayists—For donors contributing $5,000+ per annum In addition to the benefits listed at the Novelists level: • Invitations to the PEN New Members/New Books Party, which brings together over 350 established and up-and- coming writers • Exclusive priority sign-up for PEN Authors’ Evenings • Invitations to two annual briefings on pressing issues of free expression, including talks with visiting activists

Novelists—For donors contributing $2,500+ per annum • Invitations to special events, including the PEN World Voices Festival opening party and the annual PEN Board of Trustees cocktail reception • Inclusion in a special honor roll on PEN’s website, newsletters, reports, and programs

For further information contact Lorna Flynn, Manager, Authors’ Evenings/President’s Circle at [email protected] or (646) 779-4817.

22 Poets Robert Mailer Anderson, Mark Attanasio, Clara Bingham, Joan Bing- ham, Nancy Coles & Jeffrey Goldstein, Bridget Colman, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel & Carl Spielvogel, Roxanne Donovan & Tom Scarangello, Susan Dryfoos, Lauren Embrey, Jeanmarie & William Fenrich, James Gleick, Barbara L. Goldsmith, Wendy Gimbel & Doug Liebhafsky, Toni & James Goodale, Patricia Grodd, Other Press, Judith Hannan, Samuel Heins & Stacey Mills, Tracy Higgins & James Leit- ner, Jerome L. Greene Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, Alan Klein, Vanessa Lilly, Carol Mack, Yvonne & Michael Marsh, Michael Moritz, Jay McInerney & Anne Hearst, Margaret Munzer Loeb, Phyl- lis Reynolds Naylor, Alexander Neubauer, Chris Oberbeck, Michael Pietsch, Nancy Rubin, Caroline Schimmel, The Seedlings Foundation, Alice Sebold, Bill Seigel, Mr & Mrs Stanley S. Shuman, Laura Baudo & Robert F.X. Sillerman, FJC A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, Andrew Solomon & John Habich Solomon, Babette & Harvey Snyder, Annette Tapert & Joseph Allen, Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee, John & Louisa Troubh, Edward Tyler Nahem, Jacqueline Weld, Shelby White, Anonymous donors

Essayists Arlene & Alan Alda, Diane Archer & Stephen Presser, Michael Carlisle & Sally Peterson, Esther Fein, Dalio Foundation, Joan Davidson, Roger Gendron, Betsy Karel, Larry & Barbara Kirshbaum, Theresa Rebeck, Dede Reed, David Remnick, Simon Schama, James & Cathy Stone, Kerry Sulkowicz & Sandra Leong

Novelists Liaquat Ahamed, Stuart S. Applebaum Giving Foundation, Neil Barsky, Hyatt Bass, Mary Breasted & Ted Smyth, Blake Cabot & Elizabeth Cabot, Michael Carlisle & Sally Peterson, Christopher Durang, Gail Furman, Lesley Goldwasser & Jonathan Plutzik, Beth Gutcheon, Shel- agh & Bruce Herzog, Glenn Krevlin, Elinor Lipman, Katherine Manning & Carey Dunne, Daniel & Devon MacEachron, Richard L. Menschel, Evangeline Morphos & Alan Brinkley, Caroline Niemczyk, John Oakes & Carin Kuoni, Tess O’Dwyer, Elizabeth Rea, Henry Reese, Derek Scrier, Elizabeth Sifton, Noreene Storrie & Wesley McCain, Eve Stuart, Barbara & Donald Tober, Danielle Truscott & Andrew H. Kaufman, Jacob Weisberg & Deborah Needleman

Benefits are updated as opportunities arise and reviewed annually. Membership to the President’s Circle is based on individual giving.

23 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Univision The Laura Pels International PEN/Fusion Emerging Foundation for Theater Writers Prize PEN/Laura Pels Houghton Mifflin Harcourt International Foundation PEN/John Kenneth for Theater Awards Galbraith Award Barbaralee Diamonstein- Gerald Weales Spielvogel & Carl PEN/Nora Magid Award Spielvogel PEN/Diamonstein- Bernard Malamud, Gay Talese, Spielvogel Award and the friends and family of Ralph Manheim ESPN PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement and Literary The Kaplen Foundation Sports Writing Awards PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Rodman L. Drake and Jacqueline Bograd Weld PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Priscilla & Michael Henry Heim Weld Award and Amazon.com The Rochelle Ratner Fund PEN/Heim Translation PEN Open Book Award Fund Grants Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Family of Robert Bingham PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Writer Fellowship Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity PEN gratefully acknowledges Foundation, and James Bauman Rare Books and and Cathy Stone The New School for their PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary generosity and hospitality. Science Writing Award

24 PRESENTERS

James Hannaham is the author of the novels Delicious Foods (Little, Brown 2015) and God Says No (McSweeney’s, 2009), and has pub- lished stories in One Story, Fence, Story Quarterly, and BOMB, and Gigantic, for which he won a Pushcart Prize. He has exhibited text-based visual art at The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, 490 Atlantic, Kimberly-Klark Gallery, and James Cohan, and he is a co- founder of the performance group Elevator Repair Service, with which he worked from 1991-2002. He teaches in the Writing MFA program at the Pratt Institute. Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, The Good Thief, and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She is the Poet Laureate of New York State. Theresa Rebeck is a playwright, novelist and television writer. Her plays include The Scene, Mauritius and Seminar and she created the NBC series Smash. In 2010 she was the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for American Play- wright in Mid-Career. Damion Searls has translated twenty-five books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch, and is the language columnist for The Paris Re- view Daily online. He is currently writing a book about the history of the Rorschach Test and the life of its creator, Hermann Rorschach. Parul Sehgal is an editor at the New York Times Book Review. She is the recipient of the Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle and is currently teaching at Columbia University. Monique Truong is a novelist, essayist, and Chair of the PEN Liter- ary Awards Committee. Her first novel,The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), received numerous awards including the New York Pub- lic Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the Bard Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a 25 Best Fiction Books of 2010 by Barnes & Noble. Truong is a 2015 U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellow and will be the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College in the Fall of 2016.

25 ABOUT PEN AMERICAN CENTER PEN American Center is the largest of the 145 centers of PEN Inter- national, the world’s leading human rights and international literary organization. PEN International was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial tensions and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. For over 50 years, the PEN Literary Awards Program has honored and introduced some of the most outstanding voices in literature across such diverse genres as debut fiction, poetry, essay, biography, translation, sports and science writing, children’s books, as well as several career achievement awards. PEN is now accepting submissions for its 2016 literary awards cycle. To learn more, please visit PEN.org or email [email protected]. Paul W. Morris Director of Literary Programs Arielle Anema Literary Awards Coordinator 2016

26 CONGRATULATIONS BOB RYAN! WINNER OF THE 2015 PEN/ESPN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT BLOOMSBURY

“Bob Ryan is the quintessential scribe. His dandy memoir is full of fond memories, full of fun, full of basketball.” —Frank Deford

“Bob Ryan has been a part of so much of what mattered in American sports.” —Bob Costas

“A legendary sportswriter at the height of his craft.” —David J. Stern, Commissioner Emeritus, NBA

“The finest story-teller and tour-guide of our lifetime.” —Bill Walton

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27 GROVE ATLANTIC Congratulates Our Authors

Finalists for the PEN Open Book Award

RABIH ALAMEDDINE author of An Unnecessary Woman

and

ROXANE GAY author of An Untamed State

Winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing

ROB SPILLMAN author of the forthcoming memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties (Spring 2016)

28 GROVE ATLANTIC LITHUB.COM GROVE ATLANTIC Congratulates Our Authors

Finalists for the PEN Open Book Award

RABIH ALAMEDDINE THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET, author of An Unnecessary Woman and

ROXANE GAY author of An Untamed State

EVERY DAY.

Winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing

ROB SPILLMAN author of the forthcoming memoir, All Tomorrow’s Parties (Spring 2016)

LITERARY HUB ESSAYS · INTERVIEWS · EXCERPTS · EVERYTHING LIT @THELITHUB GROVE ATLANTIC BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2015–2016 (As of March 2015) Officers Andrew Solomon, President John Troubh, Executive Vice President/Treasurer Jeri Laber, Vice President Annette Tapert, Vice President Theresa Rebeck, Secretary Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director Term Trustees Roxanne Donovan Jennifer Egan Nathan Englander Morgan Entrekin Jeanmarie Fenrich Leon Friedman Masha Gessen Wendy Gimbel Barbara Goldsmith Annette Gordon-Reed Tom Healy Samuel Heins Tracy Higgins Erroll McDonald Claudia Menza Sevil Miyhandar Paul Muldoon Christian Oberbeck Tess O’Dwyer Hannah Pakula Greg Pardlo Michael Pietsch Fatima Shaik Laura Baudo Sillerman Davis Weinstock Jacob Weisberg Alex Zucker