PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to an author for a book of original collected essays.[1] The award was founded by PEN Member and author Barbaralee Diamonstein and Carl Spielvogel,[2] former New York Times columnist, "to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature."[3] The winner receives a cash award of $10,000.[1]

The award was on hiatus from 2005 to 2010.[1]

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[4]

Award winners

1990 Bernard Knox, Essays Ancient and Modern
1991 Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge
1992 David Morris, The Culture of Pain
1993 Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy
1994 Stanley Fish, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and it's a Good Thing, Too
1995 John Brinckerhoff Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
1996 Thomas Nagel, Other Minds
1997 Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly
1998 Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor
1999 Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam
2000 Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
2001 David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino
2002 David Bromwich, Skeptical Music
2003 William H. Gass, Test of Time
2004 Stewart Justman, Seeds of Mortality
2011 Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time
2012 Christopher Hitchens, Arguably
2013 Robert Hass, What Light Can Do[5]
2014 James Wolcott, Critical Mass[6]
2015 Ian Buruma, "Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of War" (New York Review of Books)[7]
2016 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me[8]
2017 Angela Morales, The Girls In My Town: Essays[9]
2018 Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters[10][11][12]
2019 Michelle Tea, Against Memoir
2020 Deborah Fleming, Resurrection of the Wild[13]

References

Writer's Chronicle, "PEN Revives Essay Award", February 2011 issue. Google cache.
Lordina Ash, Avenue, "Record (Setting) Collectors", May 2011, pg. 61
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, official website.
Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
Carolyn Kellogg (August 14, 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
John Williams (July 30, 2014). "James Wolcott and Frank Bidart Among 2014 PEN American Winners". New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
"2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. May 8, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
"2016 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
"2017 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
John Maher (February 21, 2018). "Long Soldier, Zhang, Le Guin Win At 2018 PEN Literary Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
"The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
Porter Anderson (January 31, 2018). "Industry Notes: PEN America's Finalists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
Tidwell, Christy (March 9, 2020). "DEBORAH FLEMING'S RESURRECTION OF THE WILD WINS PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY". asle.org. Retrieved December 13, 2020.

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[wc-1] Writer's Chronicle, "PEN Revives Essay Award", February 2011 issue. Google cache.

[2] Lordina Ash, Avenue, "Record (Setting) Collectors", May 2011, pg. 61

[3] PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, official website.

[4] Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.

[5] Carolyn Kellogg (August 14, 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 14, 2013.

[6] John Williams (July 30, 2014). "James Wolcott and Frank Bidart Among 2014 PEN American Winners". New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

[7] "2015 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. May 8, 2015. Retrieved March 2, 2016.

[8] "2016 PEN Literary Award Winners". PEN. June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.

[9] "2017 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY - PEN America". PEN America. 2017-03-27. Retrieved 2017-05-12.

[10] John Maher (February 21, 2018). "Long Soldier, Zhang, Le Guin Win At 2018 PEN Literary Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 21, 2018.

[11] "The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.

[12] Porter Anderson (January 31, 2018). "Industry Notes: PEN America's Finalists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved February 21, 2018.

[13] Tidwell, Christy (March 9, 2020). "DEBORAH FLEMING'S RESURRECTION OF THE WILD WINS PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY". asle.org. Retrieved December 13, 2020.