They've announced the winners of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards.
Sergio De La Pava took the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (for a first novel) for A Naked Singularity, while Frank Deford took the ... PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing (while something else won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ...).
The PEN Translation Prize -- for a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2012 -- went to Donald O. White, for his translation of Albert Vigoleis Thelen's The Island of Second Sight (longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award earlier this year). And while Overlook is to be lauded for bringing out the US edition, the real hero here is Galileo, which brought this out in the UK in 2010 -- well done, and all the credit in the world to them; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Sergio De La Pava took the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (for a first novel) for A Naked Singularity, while Frank Deford took the ... PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing (while something else won the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ...).
The PEN Translation Prize -- for a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2012 -- went to Donald O. White, for his translation of Albert Vigoleis Thelen's The Island of Second Sight (longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award earlier this year). And while Overlook is to be lauded for bringing out the US edition, the real hero here is Galileo, which brought this out in the UK in 2010 -- well done, and all the credit in the world to them; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.