PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
- PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction is awarded biennially by the PEN American Center "to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."[cite press release]
title = "Philip Roth Wins Inaugural PEN/Saul Bellow Award"
publisher = PEN American Center
date = April 2, 2007
url = http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1406/prmID/1351
accessdate = 2007-05-15] The winner receives US$40,000. The award was created with the cooperation of the Saul Bellow estate and through a grant from Evelyn Stefansson Nef. Announcing the first recipient of the award (Bellow's close friend Philip Roth), PEN president Ron Chernow said the award honors "one of America’s greatest writers...whose work over a forty-year career exemplified the capacity of fiction to encompass the totality of human experience. We are confident that this Award will help to recognize and perpetuate the qualities so evident in Saul Bellow’s writings."The award was first given in 2007.
Award winners
*2007 Philip Roth
Notes
External links
* [http://www.pen.org/ PEN American Center]
* [http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1406/prmID/1351 Press release announcing the award]
* [http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/04/01/philip_roth_wins_first_ever_saul_bellow_award/ AP article featuring Roth's comments on winning the inaugural award]
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