Congratulations, Pierre. A trumpet is much too small - I think you got a
trombone here!
Stephen V
> 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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