The annual presentation of PEN America’s literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year.
A collage of some 55 finalists in the PEN America 2021 Literary Awards program. Image: PEN America
Nossel: ‘This Year of Tumult and Torment’
In our previews of the PEN America Literary Award finalists and the program’s Career Achievement Prize recipients,
Publishing Perspectives readers looked at one of the more complex annual presentations of a broad range of disparate awards.
Funded by many generous donors and presented on varying schedules, the program carries a combined value of more than US$380,000 in prize money and these awards carry the luster of PEN’s humanitarian stance when conferred on an author’s work.