PEN USA Announces 2006 Literary Awards Winners

Posted on October 19, 2006

PEN USA, the West Coast arm of International PEN, has announced the winners of the 2006 Literary Awards. Author Percival Everett won in the fiction category with his novel set in Wyoming called Wounded. Here is the complete list of winners:

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.