Toni Morrison and John Schulian receive PEN America Literary Awards

PEN America announced the winners of their 2016 Awards on March 1. Toni Morrison won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction given to a distinguished living American author of fiction. John Schulian won the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, given to a writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field.

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Winners of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize, and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants will be announced at an awards ceremony on April 11.