NEW YORK -- Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson and Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe are among this year's winners of PEN America awards for career achievement.
Toronto-born Carson, a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle poetry award and an acclaimed translator of Greek drama, has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for work of 鈥渆nduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.鈥�
Wolfe, whose credits range from writing the musical 鈥淛elly's Last Jam鈥� to directing 鈥淎ngels In America,鈥� has received the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award for work that 鈥渆nlightens and inspires audiences.鈥�
Other citations announced Tuesday by PEN America include the PEN/Laura Pels Award for theatre to the performance artist and playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, the PEN/Nora Magid Award for magazine editing to Prairie Schooner editor Kwame Dawes, and the PEN/Manheim Award for translation to Pierre Joris, who has worked on poems by Paul Celan and Jean-Pierre Duprey among others.
鈥淎mong this year's winners are revolutionaries, icons, and trailblazers,鈥� PEN America's Jane Marchant, director of the Literary Awards program, said in a statement. 鈥淏y poetry, translation, screenwriting, dramaturgy, performance writing, and the art of editing, these honorees transform the arc of the literary canon and infuse it with striking originality.鈥�
The winners will formally receive their awards during an April 8 ceremony.
