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.
History and purpose The award was founded by PEN Member and author Barbaralee Diamonstein and Carl Spielvogel,Lordina Ash, Avenue, "Record (Setting) Collectors", May 2011, pg. 61 former New York Times columnist, "to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature."PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay , official website. The winner receives a cash award of $10,000.
The award was on hiatus from 2005 to 2010.Writer's Chronicle, "PEN Revives Essay Award", February 2011 issue. Google cache.
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.
Award winners
+PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay winnersYearAuthorTitleResultRef.1990Essays Ancient and ModernWinner1991Love's KnowledgeWinner1992Winner1993Winner1994There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and it's a Good Thing, TooWinner1995Winner1996Other MindsWinner1997Fame and FollyWinner1998Finding the TrapdoorWinner1999Winner2000For the Time BeingWinner2001Winner2002Skeptical MusicWinner2003Test of TimeWinner2004Seeds of MortalityWinner2011Essays from the Nick of TimeWinner2012ArguablyWinner2013What Light Can DoWinnerShortlistWaiting for the BarbariansShortlist2014Critical MassWinnerShortlistLet's Explore Diabetes With Owls ShortlistForty-One False Starts Shortlist2015Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of WarWinnerMoral ImaginationShortlistLoiteringShortlistShortlistLimberShortlist2016Between the World and MeWinnerAfter the Tall Timber: Collected Non-Fiction ShortlistShortlistShortlistSidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los AngelesShortlist2017Winner2018No Time to Spare: Thinking About What MattersWinner2019Against MemoirWinner2020Resurrection of the WildWinnerI Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve BabitzShortlistMake It Scream, Make It Burn: EssaysShortlistI Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV RevolutionShortlistTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-DelusionShortlist2021Had I Known: Collected EssaysWinner2022Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American SouthWinnerShortlistHomo Irrealis: Essays ShortlistBlack Paper: Writing in a Dark Time ShortlistThese Precious Days: Essays Shortlist2023WinnerTranslating Myself and OthersShortlistStill No Word From YouShortlistHappy-Go-LuckyShortlistShortlist
References
External links PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, official website.