PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing is awarded by the PEN American Center to honor "a nonfiction book about sports."[1] The award was established in 2010 and is awarded to a title that is "biographical, investigative, historical, or analytical" in nature.[2][3][4] Judges have included Robert Lipsyte, Tim O'Brien, and Susan Orlean.
Presented in conjunction is the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. This award is given to an American or U.S. based writer to honor "their body of work and long-term contributions to the field of literary sports writing."[2][5] The award was established in 2011 and includes an honorarium of US$5,000.[6] Candidates are nominated by PEN Members.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[7]
Award winners
- 2010
- Lifetime Achievement Award: no award
- Literary Sports Writing: Marshall Jon Fisher, A Terrible Splendor
- 2011
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Roger Angell[8][9][10]
- Literary Sports Writing: George Dohrmann, Play Their Hearts Out
- 2012
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Dan Jenkins[11]
- Literary Sports Writing: Dan Barry, Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game
- 2013 [12]
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Frank Deford[13]
- Literary Sports Writing: Mark Kram, Jr., Like Any Normal Day
- 2014[14]
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Dave Anderson[15]
- Literary Sports Writing: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru, League of Denial[16]
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Ryan
- Literary Sports Writing: John Branch, Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
- Lifetime Achievement Award: John Schulian
- Literary Sports Writing: Scott Ellsworth, The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
References
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- PEN American Center
- PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
- PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
- ↑ PEN American Center Literary Awards
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