For Poetry:
The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

For an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature, for whom the promise seen in earlier work has been fulfilled, and who has matured with each successive volume.

1998 C.K. Williams
1996 Franz Wright
1994 Jane Kenyon

The PEN/Joyce Osterwell Award for Poetry

For an emerging poet of special promise.

1999 Nick Flynn

For Drama:
The PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama

Two playwrights are recognized annually: a medal is presented to a master American dramatist, in recognition of his or her body of work (chosen by internal nomination); and a stipend is awarded to an American playwright in mid-career (for which nominations are accepted), whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in the rich and striking language of his or her work.

2000 Richard Foreman, Charles L. Mee
1999 Edward Albee, Paula Vogel
1998 Arthur Miller, Richard Greenberg

For Outstanding Nonfiction:
The PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay

For the best book of previously uncollected essays on any subject by an American writer, published in the current calendar year, in recognition of the dignity and esteem the essay form imparts to literature.

2000 The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen
1999 The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
1998 Finding the Trapdoor by Adam Hochschild
1997 Fame & Folly by Cynthia Ozick

The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction

For a first-published book of general nonfiction by an American writer, characterized by literary excellence, published in the current calendar year.

2000 Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
1999 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
1998 Echoes of a Native Land by Serge Schmemann
1997 Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty

The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir

For a distinguished book-length memoir (the author's first) published in the current calendar year.

2000 Misgivings by C.K. Williams
1999 Truth Comes in Blows by Ted Solotaroff
1998 Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian

The PEN/Jerard Fund Award

For a woman writer early in her career, at work on a book of general nonfiction marked by high literary quality.

2000 Collette Brooks
1999 Kim Todd
1997 Judy Blunt
1995 Kim Barnes

The PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts

Given to an American writer for an outstanding book of criticism or commentary on one or more of the visual arts (including architecture, interior design, landscape studies, painting, and sculpture), published in the calendar year under consideration.

2000 Leonard Barkan and Debora Silverman

For the Art of LiteraryTranslation:
The PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

For a distinguished book-length translation, from any language into English, published in the current calendar year.

2000 Tina Nunnally, Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
1999 Michael Hofmann, The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth
1998 Peter Constantine, Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
1997 Arnold Pomerans, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

For a distinguished book-length translation of poetry, from any language into English, published in the current calendar year.

2000 Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
1999 Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa & Co.
1998 Eamon Grennan, Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
1997 Edward Snow, Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

The PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

Given every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work.

1997 Robert Fagles
1994 Richard Wilbur
1991 William Weaver

The Gregory Kolovakos Award

For an American literary translator, editor, or critic whose work is distinguished by a strong commitment to Hispanic literature and to expanding its English-language audience.

1998 Johannes Wilbert
1996 Two awards: Jean Franco and Suzanne Jill Levine
1994 Helen Lane

The Renato Poggioli Translation Award

For a promising translator at work on a book-length translation from Italian into English.

1998 Minna Proctor, Love in Vain: Selected Stories by Federigo Tozzi
1997 Ann McGarrell, The Face of Isis by Victoria Ronchley
1996 Louise Rozier, The Little Jesus of SicilyFortunato Pasqualino

For Children's Literature:
The PEN/Norma Klein Award

Acknowledges an emerging voice of literary merit among American writers of children's fiction. ($3,000; in odd-numbered years)

1999 Valerie Hobbs
1997 Rita Williams-Garcia
1995 Angela Johnson