In addition to its literary awards, PEN presented a new fellowship in memory of the late author Robert Bingham at its annual awards dinner last month. The fellowship, which carries a stipend of $35,000 per year for two consecutive years, was awarded to three fiction authors who debuted in 2000— 2001. The recipients were Carolyn Cooke, Matthew Klam and Manil Suri.
The $5,000 working writer fellowship was awarded to Lori Aurelia Williams. The literary award winners were Frederick Seidel (poetry, $5,000); David Bromwich for Skeptical Music (essay, $5,000); Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky for their translation of Anna Karenina (translation, $3,000); Anne Twitty for her translation of Islandia (poetry in translation, $3,000); Nina Bernstein for The Lost Children of Wilder (first nonfiction, $1,000); and Paula Fox for Borrowed Finery (memoir, $1,000). The PEN/Nabokov Award of $20,000 for lifetime achievement was given to novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who will share the award with his three English-language translators.
