PEN Center USA 2012 Literary Award
winners include Siobhan
Fallon, Fiction: You
Know When the Men Are Gone (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam); Anne Waldman, Poetry: The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the
Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press); Candice Millard,
Research Nonfiction: Destiny
of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and Murder of a President (Anchor); Eavan Boland, Creative
Nonfiction: A Journey with
Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet (W.W. Norton & Co.); Suzanne Jill Levine,
Translation: The Lizard's
Tale: A Novel, originally by Jose Donoso (Northwestern University Press);
Matthew J. Kirby,
Children's Literature: Icefall
(Scholastic Press); Joe
Sacco, Graphic Literature: Body of Work; Ben Ehrenreich,
Journalism: Drip, Jordan:
Israel's water war with Palestine (Harper’s Magazine); Michelle Carter,
Drama: How to Pray;
Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig,
Screenplay: Bridesmaids;
Alex Ganza,
Howard Gordon,
and Gideon Raff,
Teleplay: Homeland:
“Pilot” (Showtime).
Joyce Carol Oates, Lifetime Achievement Honoree, is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and The Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lara Logan, Freedom to Write Honoree, has earned a prominent spot among the world's best foreign correspondents with her bold, award-winning reporting from war zones over the past nineteen years. In February 2011, she was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob while reporting on the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square. She broke her silence about the incident on 60 Minutes to draw attention to the plight of women—particularly female journalists covering war zones—across the world. The 2011-12 season will be her seventh reporting for 60 Minutes. Logan's daily reports have been an integral part of CBS News' coverage of the war in Iraq, both before and after U.S. troops moved into the country. She was the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U.S. military invaded the city, reporting live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell. Since then, she has spent the majority of her time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Logan has received an Emmy Award, Overseas Press Club Award, a DuPont-Columbia University silver baton, a Murrow Award, five American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards, a David Bloom Award, and the 2007 Association of International Broadcasters' Best International News Story Award for her report on the Taliban.
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