Announcing the 2010 PEN USA Literary Award Winners

FICTION
Victor Lodato: Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

POETRY
Amy Catanzano: Multiversal (Fordham University Press)

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Vicki Forman: This Lovely Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

RESEARCH NONFICTION
Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

Paul Fleischman: The Dunderheads (Candlewick Press)

JOURNALISM
Mary Melton: Julius Shulman in 36 Exposures (Los Angeles Magazine)

TRANSLATION
Fady Joudah: Mahmoud Darwish's If I Were Another (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

DRAMA
Julie Hebert: Tree

SCREENPLAY
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner: Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures)

TELEPLAY
Peter Blake: House: The Tyrant (NBC)

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST BOOK AWARD
Angela Garcia: The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (University of California Press)

For more information and to see a list of all the Finalists and Winners, please visit http://penusa.org/2010LitAwards.