PEN Center West Announces Literary Awards for 1995

PEN Center USA West, the professional writers organization, has announced its 1995 literary awards, for outstanding work last year by writers living in the West. The winners:

Nonfiction: Julia Frey for “Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life” (Viking).

Fiction: Robert Boswell for “Living to Be 100” (Knopf).

Poetry: Jack Gilbert for “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992 (Knopf.)

Translation: John E. Woods for “Collected Novellas of Arno Schmidt: Collected Early Fiction, 1949-1964, Volume 1” (Dalkey Archive Press.)

Children’s Literature: Gerald McDermott for “Coyote: A Trickster Tale From the American Southwest” (Harcourt Brace.)

Drama: Justin Tanner for “Pot Mom” for the Cast Theater

Teleplay: Susan Black and Lance Gentile for “State of Emergency” on HBO

Screenplay: Frank Darabont for “The Shawshank Redemption” for Castle Rock

Journalism: Ann Louise Bardarch for “Mexico’s Poet Rebel” in Vanity Fair

The winners receive a $500 prize and will be honored at a ceremony to be held in October in Los Angeles.