Bard Alum Pierre Joris ’69 Among Roster of Breakthrough Literary Visionaries to Receive 2021 PEN America Career Achievement Prizes
PEN America has announced its 2021 career achievement award winners, to be honored at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on April 8 at 7pm ET. This year’s honorees are Bard alumnus Pierre Joris ’69, Anne Carson, Kwame Dawes, Daniel Alexander Jones, and George C. Wolfe. Joris will receive the PEN/Manheim Award for Translation, bestowed every three years to a translator whose body of work demonstrates a commitment to excellence. The committee wrote that Joris’s work “has long been and remains essential in mapping currents and countercurrents of global modernity.”
Post Date: 03-25-2021
Post Date: 03-25-2021