Dear List,
Being a non-academic and non-American reader, only
after I picked up my abandoned copies of Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint"
and "Human Stain" (because of all the present discussions about
a Nobel prize), and perused their cover, did I learn
that he'd been awarded a Pen/Nabokov award and that such an award
existed.
Perhaps other participants would be
interested in sharing this information:
The PEN/Nabokov Award is given to a
living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English,
is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.
2006: Philip Roth
Previous PEN/Nabokov Award
winners:
2004 Mavis Gallant
2002 Mario Vargas Llosa
2000
William H. Gass