美國筆會中心（PEN American Center），成立于1922年，是國際筆會（International PEN）最大的區域分支機構，也是美國最大的文化組織之一，總部設在紐約。中心由全美作家、詩人、報刊評論家、編輯、文學翻譯家、書刊代理人等組成。美國筆會中心是一個非營利組織，它致力于推進文學發展，保護自由言論以及扶助國際文學社團。

美國筆會中心還發起各種文學活動和閱讀活動來培養公眾的閱讀和寫作興趣，如紐約國際文學節。此外，中心還設立過多種文學獎項，如納伯科夫獎、歐內斯特•海明威基金獎、福克納獎、索爾•貝婁文學獎等。

筆會頒發文學獎：

美國筆會／海明威文學獎（PEN／Hemingway Award）

The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway Society since 1987, and PEN New England. Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction.

The winner is selected by a panel of three distinguished fiction writers and receives a cash prize of US$8000. Along with the winner, two finalists and two runners-up receive a Ucross Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation, a retreat for artists and writers on a 22,000 acre (89 km²) ranch on the high plains in Ucross, Wyoming. The award ceremony is held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

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美國筆會／福克納小說獎（PEN／Faulkner Award for Fiction）

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May.

2009 AWARD WINNER JOSEPH O’NEILL

1996–2008 AWARD WINNERS & FINALISTS

1981–1995 AWARD WINNERS & FINALISTS

美國筆會／索爾貝婁文學獎（PEN／Saul Bellow Award）

The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a 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. The award carries a stipend of $25,000. The judges for this year’s award were Claudia Roth Pierpont, Philip Roth, and Benjamin Taylor.
 

2009 AWARD WINNER Cormac McCarthy

2007 AWARD WINNER Philip Roth

美國筆會／納博科夫文學獎（PEN／Nabokov Award）

 The PEN/Nabokov Award is given to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. The PEN/Nabokov Award is made possible by the Vladimir Nabokov Foundation, founded by Dimitri Nabokov.

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