[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: For Immediate Release: PEN USA ANNOUNCES 2008 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS - Larry Gelbart Set to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Mon Nov 10 17:42:54 PST 2008

Note that UCR's Juan Felipe Herrera is a winner:

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> From: "Ronni Chasen" <ronni at chasenpr.com>
> Date: November 10, 2008 12:45:53 PM PST
> To: "'Ronni Chasen'" <ronni at chasenpr.com>
> Cc: <alex at chasenpr.com>
> Subject: For Immediate Release: PEN USA ANNOUNCES 2008 LITERARY  
> AWARD WINNERS - Larry Gelbart Set to Receive Lifetime Achievement  
> Award
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> PEN USA ANNOUNCES 2008 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS
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> Award winning writer Larry Gelbart set to receive Lifetime  
> Achievement Award
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> Los Angeles (November 10, 2008) —  PEN USA, the West Coast center  
> for the renowned writers’ organization International PEN, has  
> unveiled the winners of its prestigious 2008 Literary Awards  
> competition. The prizes, announced by PEN USA Executive Director  
> Adam Somers, honor outstanding work by writers in 10 separate  
> genres. They will be presented at the 18th annual Literary Awards  
> Festival gala dinner (LitFest), which will be held at the Beverly  
> Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
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> In addition to the literary prizes, PEN USA’s LitFest gala will  
> feature several other honors. In a salute to the range of his  
> accomplishments in multiple genres, award-winning television  
> writer, screenwriter, playwright and author, Larry Gelbart, will be  
> presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by award-winning  
> writer and producer Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing,” Charlie  
> Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men).  In a career lasting over 60 years,  
> Gelbart is well-known for his Oscar nominated screenplays Tootsie  
> and Oh, God!, as well as his book for the classic Broadway musical  
> “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” and his role  
> in the creation of the television series M*A*S*H.  TNT and Michael  
> Wright, Senior Vice President of Content Creation for TNT, TBS and  
> TCM will receive the Award of Honor, given each year to a person,  
> group or institution whose efforts have had a meaningful impact on  
> writers in our culture. The award will be presented by Emmy nominee  
> James Duff, creator, writer and executive producer of “The  
> Closer,” in acknowledgement of the original programming aired by  
> TNT shows such as “Saving Grace,” “The Closer” and this  
> year’s “Raising the Bar.”
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> The evening’s First Amendment Award, given to men and women who  
> have taken a stand on behalf of the right to free expression, even  
> at possible risk to their careers, including the right to be fairly  
> compensated for their work, will be presented to the Writers Guild  
> of America, West. The award will be accepted by Patric M. Verrone,  
> President of the WGA, West and John F. Bowman, WGA 2007-2008  
> Negotiating Committee Chair.
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> PEN USA’s Freedom to Write Award will be given in absentia to  
> Mynamar journalist, poet and pro-democracy activist U Win Tin who,  
> largely through the efforts of International PEN, was recently  
> released after nineteen years in prison
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> Serving as Master of Ceremonies for this year’s event will be Emmy- 
> winning producer and political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell.  Other  
> special guests for this evening include John Lesher, President of  
> Paramount Film Group, who will present the Screenplay award to  
> Oscar nominee Paul Thomas Anderson.
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> Recipients of the literary awards were chosen by a distinguished  
> panel of writers, editors and journalists. Winners were selected  
> from among more than 500 entries. Each winner will receive a $1000  
> cash prize presented at the Literary Awards Gala. Past recipients  
> of the Award of Honor and Lifetime Achievement Award include: Jeff  
> Bezos, Robert Shaye, Otis Chandler, HBO, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ray  
> Bradbury, Walter Mosley, Jane Smiley, Kevin Starr, Gloria Steinem,  
> Robert Towne, Gore Vidal, and Billy Wilder.
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> FULL LIST OF 2008 WINNERS:
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> Fiction                                     DANIEL ALARCON • Lost  
> City Radio  (HarperCollins)
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> Creative Nonfiction               JULIA WHITTY • The Fragile Edge  
> (Houghton Mifflin Company)
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> Research Nonfiction              WILLIAM T. VOLLMAN • Poor People  
> (Harper Perennial)
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> Poetry                                     JUAN FELIPE HERRERA •  
> 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border (City Lights  
> Publishers)
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> Children’s Literature             RON KOERTGE • Strays  
> (Candlewick Press)
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> Translation                             DONALD REVELL • A Season  
> in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (Omnidawn Publishing)
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> Journalism                              JESSE KATZ • “The Test  
> of Their Lives” (Los Angeles Magazine)
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> Drama                                     SHEM BITTERMAN •  
> Harm’s Way (Circus Theatricals Foundation)
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> Teleplay                                  TERENCE WINTER • The  
> Sopranos: The Second Coming (HBO)
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> Screenplay                              PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON •  
> There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
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> ABOUT PEN USA
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> PEN USA is a non-profit Los Angeles-based membership organization  
> of professional writers, the United States center for the  
> organization International PEN for those American writers living  
> west of the Mississippi River. Its members are connected by the  
> goals of building interest in the written word and defending  
> writers worldwide by protecting freedom of expression. Among its  
> many contributions to the literary world, PEN USA’s Emerging  
> Voices program awards fellowships to promising writers from  
> underserved communities and provides them with an intensive eight- 
> month program of workshops, classes, seminars and individual  
> mentorships. In the classrooms of many underprivileged schools  
> across Southern California, its PEN in the Classroom program helps  
> children and teachers alike in the process of creative reading and  
> writing.
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> For further information, visit www.penusa.org
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> Or contact, Mann Productions (323) 314 – 7000.
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