x'cuse me for blowing my own trumpet -- Pierre
The New York Times
May 9, 2005
Shawn Wins PEN Career Achievement Award
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 2:56 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn has received a career
achievement award from PEN, one of several honors announced Monday by
the writers organization.
Shawn, whose many plays include ''The Designated Mourner'' and ''The
Fever,'' won the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation prize for his work in the
theater. He will receive a rare first edition of dramatic literature,
the writers organization said in a statement.
Other winners of PEN awards included Sam Harris' ''The End of
Faith,'' for best nonfiction debut, and ''Forms of Gone,'' by Yerra
Sugarman, for best poetry.
PEN also gave out a pair of awards for translations, to Tim Wilkinson
for the English-language edition of Nobel laureate Imre Kertesz's
''Fatelessness,'' and to Pierre Joris for his work on
''Lightduress,'' by the poet Paul Celan.
Memoirist Nick Flynn received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the
''Art of the Memoir'' and Amanda Jenkins won a PEN/Phyllis Naylor
Working Writer Fellowship.
Bich Minh Nguyen, who is writing ''Stealing Buddha's Dinner,'' was
given the PEN Jerard Fund Award, which honors ''a work in progress of
general nonfiction distinguished by high literary quality by a woman
at the midpoint in her career.''
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