International women writers celebrated in bumper English PEN grants season

Book2BookMonday 02 Nov 2015

Han Kang, Karmele Jaio and Lydie Salvayre are among the eight women writers whose books have been awarded an English PEN grant in the latest round. Han, acclaimed author of The Vegetarian, will publish her novel Human Acts in January 2016 with the backing of both a PEN Promotes and a PEN Translates grant.

Sixteen PEN Translates grants were awarded in this round, with eight awarded to books by women writers; this is the first time that women and men have shared the grants equally. This is also the first round in which publishers with a turnover of less than £500,000pa were eligible to apply for 100% of translation costs; five 100% grants were awarded.


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