PEN Awards Five Creators Career Achievement Prizes
Mar 23, 2021
PEN America announced the winners of the 2021 PEN America career achievement prizes. The prizes will be awarded during the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on April 8.
- George C. Wolfe will receive the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award
- Anne Carson will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
- Daniel Alexander Jones will receive the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award
- Kwame Dawes is the recipient of the biennial PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing
- Pierre Joris will receive the PEN/Manheim Award for Translation
“Among this year’s winners are revolutionaries, icons, and trailblazers,” said PEN America’s Jane Marchant, director of the literary awards program. “These writers ask complex questions and refuse simple answers; through language they confront preconceived patterns, ideas, and notions, and challenge the world and its people to be better. They transcend barriers, languages, and cultures, and pointedly address urgent topics for conversation. They are bright lights, guiding us in directions we must follow.”
