PEN USA Announces 2010 Awards

PEN USA, the West Coast center for the writers’organization International PEN, announced the winners of the 2010 Literary Awards. The prizes honor outstanding work by writers in 11 separate genres, including a new award for Graphic Literature. They will be presented at the 20th Annual Literary Awards

Festival, known as LitFest, on November 17, 2010.

The winners are:

Fiction

Victor Lodato for Mathilda Savitch: A Novel

Poetry

Amy Catanzano for Multiversal

Creative Nonfiction

Vicki Forman forThis Lovely Life

Research Nonfiction

Minal Hajratwala for Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents

Children’s/Young Adult Literature

Paul Fleischman for The Dunderheads

Journalism

Mary Melton for Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures in Los Angeles Magazine

Translation

Fady Joudah for Mahmoud Darwish’s If I Were Another

DramaScreenplay

Julie Hebert for Tree

Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air

Teleplay

Peter Blake for House: “The Tyrant”

The Graphic Literature Award

Matt Fraction for Outstanding Body of Work

Exceptional First Book Award

Angela Garcia for The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande