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1997 PEN Literary Award Winners

Ernest Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award for First Fiction	Ha Jin, Ocean of Words (Zoland Press)
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize	The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Arnold Pomerans, translator; Ronald de Leeuw, editor (Viking)
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation	Uncollected Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke; Edward Snow, translator (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation	Robert Fagles for lifetime achievement
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction	Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast (HarperCollins)
PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay	Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly (Knopf)
Emerging Writer Award/Renato Poggioli Translation Award	Ann McGarrell, The Face of Isis, by Vittoria Ronchey
PEN/Jerard Fund Award for a Nonfiction Work in Progress by a Woman Writer	Winter Kill, Judy Blunt
PEN/Norma Klein Award for a New Children's Fiction Writer	Rita Williams-Garcia, Sisters on the Homefront, Fast Talk on a Slow Track and Blue Tights (all Lodestar)

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