PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
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The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay is awarded by the PEN American Center to an author for a book of original collected essays.[1] The award was founded by PEN Member and author Barbaralee Diamonstein and Carl Spielvogel,[2] former New York Times columnist, "to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature."[3] The winner receives a cash award of $10,000.[1]
The award was on hiatus from 2005 to 2010.[1]
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[4]
Award winners
- 1990 Bernard Knox, Essays Ancient and Modern
- 1991 Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge
- 1992 David Morris, The Culture of Pain
- 1993 Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy
- 1994 Stanley Fish, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and it's a Good Thing, Too
- 1995 John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
- 1996 Thomas Nagel, Other Minds
- 1997 Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly
- 1998 Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor
- 1999 Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam
- 2000 Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
- 2001 David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino
- 2002 David Bromwich, Skeptical Music
- 2003 William H. Gass, Test of Time
- 2004 Stewart Justman, Seeds of Mortality
- 2011 Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time
- 2012 Christopher Hitchens, Arguably
- 2013 Robert Hass, What Light Can Do[5]
- 2014 James Wolcott, Critical Mass[6]
- 2015 Ian Buruma, "Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of War" (New York Review of Books)[7]
- 2016 Winner will be announced April 11, 2016[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Writer's Chronicle, "PEN Revives Essay Award", February 2011 issue. Google cache.
- ↑ Lordina Ash, Avenue, "Record (Setting) Collectors", May 2011, pg. 61
- ↑ PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, official website.
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External links
- PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, official website.
