AWARDS TRACKER
PEN AMERICA
Edna O’Brien and Edmund White are receiving lifetime achievement awards from PEN America. The literary and human rights organization announced Tuesday that White has won the PEN/Saul Bellow award for American fiction, and the Irish-born O’Brien will be given the PEN/Nabokov award for international literature. White, 78, is known for such groundbreaking LGBT works as A Boy’s Own Story and The Beautiful Room is Empty. O’Brien, 87, has written the novels The Country Girls and Time and Tide.