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2004 PEN Awards for Literature
April 4, 2004
Russell Banks novelist, screenwriter
Jennifer Haigh 2004 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
Carlo Rotella professor, Boston College, 2004 PEN Award
Joan Leegant 2004 L.L. Winship/PEN NE Award

The 2004 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN Awards are presented.

Jennifer Haigh is honored as the 2004 recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Mrs. Kimble. Sean Hemingway, the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the award.

The ceremony also honors writers Carlo Rotella and Joan Leegant as cowinners of the 2004 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, given annually to an author from New England or to an author whose writing includes a New England setting. Mr. Rotella is being recognized for Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, and Ms. Leegant for An Hour in Paradise. The L.L. Winship/PEN Award honors long-time Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship and is sponsored by the Boston Globe and PEN/New England.

Award-winning novelist Russell Banks, whose works Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter were made into movies and Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, serves as the ceremony's keynote speaker.

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Image of Cloudsplitter: A Novel
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 768 pages
Image of The Reserve
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Vintage Canada (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of Sweet Hereafter: A Novel
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1992)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
Image of Continental Drift (P.S.)
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 448 pages
Image of Affliction
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1990)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of Baker Towers: A Novel
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 368 pages
Image of The Condition: A Novel (P.S.)
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages
Image of Mrs. Kimble (P.S.)
Author: Jennifer Haigh
Publisher: Harper Perennial (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages
Image of Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
Author: Carlo Rotella
Publisher: University of California Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 278 pages
Image of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights
Author: Carlo Rotella
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 236 pages
Image of October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature
Author: Carlo Rotella
Publisher: University of California Press (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
Image of An Hour in Paradise: Stories
Author: Joan Leegant
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
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