Philip Roth awarded the Bellow Prize
Date: April 2, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Philip Roth has been awarded the first ever PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The price was named after Roth’s late friend and Nobel laureate Saul Bellow.
Roth, whose literary career spans six decades, is perhaps best known for such award-winning works as his 1969 novel Portnoy’s Complaint and the 1990s trilogy American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000).
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The $40,000 Bellow Prize will from now on be awarded once in every two years, and voted by the members of the PEN panel for any “distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature.”
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