We are pleased to announce that four titles published by New York Review Books are on the long list for the 2014 PEN Literary Awards.
Martin Filler’s second volume of Makers of Modern Architecture has been nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Nominated for the PEN Translation Prize are three NYRB Classics:
- An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman and translated by Elizabeth and Robert Chandler
- Transit by Anna Seghers and translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
- Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozo
The PEN shortlist will be announced on June 17 and the 2014 PEN Literary Award winners will be named on July 30.