2007 Literary Award Winners

PEN USA 17TH ANNUAL LITERARY AWARDS FESTIVAL
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

6:30 p.m. Cocktail Reception

7:30 p.m. Dinner and Tribute Program

Master of Ceremonies
LARRY GELBART

LIFETIME Achievement AWARD
CLANCY SIGAL
presented by Gore Vidal

AWARD of HONOR
MARTIN GARBUS, Esq.
LAURA R. HANDMAN, Esq.
THOMAS R. JULIN, Esq.
CHARLES D. TOBIN, Esq.

A Special Salute
to LINDA DEUTSCH on the occasion
of her 40th Anniversary with the
Los Angeles bureau of the ASSOCIATED PRESS

First Amendment AWARD
JERRY ROBERTS
former Executive Editor
Santa Barbara News-Press

FREEDOM to Write AWARD
SAHAL ABDULL
Reuters News Agency, Mogadishu, Somalia

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LITERARY AWARD WINNERS

F i c t i o n
Kevin Brockmeier
The Brief History of the Dead
Pantheon Books

C r e a t i v e N o n f i c t i o n
Debra Marquart
The Horizontal World
Counterpoint/Perseus Basic Books

R e s e a r c h N o n f i c t i o n
Lawrence Wright
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11
Alfred A. Knopf

J o u r n a l i s m
Jake Silverstein
Highway Run Harper’s Magazine

D r a m a
Craig Volk
Mayakovsky Takes the Stage
Rawls Theatre, Denver, Colorado

Children’s Literature
Cynthia Kadohata
Weedflower Atheneum Books for
Young Readers/Simon and Schuster

P o e t r y Ralph Angel
Exceptions and Melancholies:
Poems 1986-2006 Sarabande Books

T r a n s l a t i o n
Mary M.Y. Funge & David Lunde
The Carving of Insects, by Bian
Zhilin Research Centre for Translation,
Chinese University of Hong Kong

T e l e p l a y
Phyllis Nagy
Mrs. Harris HBO

S c r e e n p l a y
Zach Helm
Stranger Than Fiction
Sony Pictures Entertainment