PEN/Open Book

PEN/Open Book

PEN/Open Book (formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award)[1] is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry. Created in 1991 by the PEN American Center, the PEN/Open Book program ensures custodians of language and literature are representative of the American people.

The Committee discusses mutual concerns and strategies for advancing writing and professional activities, and coordinates Open Book events. Five US$1,000 awards are presented yearly to books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage".[1]

List of award recipients

[2]

2009
2008
2007
2006
  • Richard Blanco: Directions to the Beach of the Dead
  • Andrew Lam: Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
  • Ed-Bok Lee: Real Karaoke People
  • Caryl Phillips: Dancing in the Dark
  • Jennifer Tseng: The Man With My Face
2005
  • Faith Adiele: Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
  • Raquel Cepeda (editor): And It Don’t Stop:The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
  • Lan Samantha Chang: Inheritance
  • Lolita Hernandez: Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
  • Ishle Yi Park: The Temperature of This Water
2004
  • Laila Halaby: West of the Jordan: A Novel
  • Suki Kim: The Interpreter
  • Nasdijj: The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping
  • Willie Perdomo: Smoking Lovely
  • April Reynolds: Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel
2002
Earlier winners

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Open Book Awards" at PEN American Center, accessed 5 Aug 2010.
  2. ^ List of Beyond Margins Award Winners at PEN American Center, accessed 5 Aug 2010.

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