PEN USA, the West Coast arm of International PEN, has announced the winners of the 2006 Literary Awards. The winners are:
Fiction: Wounded by Percival Everett
Creative Nonfiction: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, by Michael Chorost
Research Nonfiction: Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free
an Empires Slaves by Adam Hochschild
Poetry: Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
Children’s Literature: The Tequila Worm, by Viola Canales
Translation: War Variations by Amelia Rosselli, translated by Lucia Re
and Paul Vangelisti
Journalism: "Historian Iris Chang Won Many Battles/The War She Lost Raged Within,"
in the San Francisco Chronicle by Heidi Benson
Drama: Devil's Advocate by Donald Freed
Teleplay: Sucker Free City by Alex Tse
Screenplay: Good Night, And Good Luck by George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Jane Smiley will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The winners will receive $1,000 and will be feted at the Literary Awards Festival Gala Dinner on December 12, 2006. You can read more about the awards and PEN at the organization's website.
