PEN America announced plans to bring back the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature starting next year. This accolade, which recognizes the work of writers born or residing outside of the United States of America, comes with $50,000 in prize money.
Here’s more from the press release: “Supported by the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation–headed by eminent literary agent Andrew Wylie–and administered by PEN America, the new PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature will honor an international writer whose work, either written in or translated into English, represents the highest level of achievement in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and/or drama, and is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. The winner will be selected by a panel of five internationally recognized writers who will serve as judges. The award will not be open to public nominations.”
PEN America worked with the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation to create this award back in 2000. The organization stopped giving it out in 2008. Some of the past winners include Mario Vargas Llosa, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth.