The PEN American Center announced the winners (and runners-up) for their wealth of 2012 literary prizes and translation grants, comprising 18 awards in all. The roster includes two new prizes (asterisked) below, and comprises almost $175,000 for the honored writers. Among the winners: PEN/Bellwether Prize (unpublished socially-engaged fiction)*: Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (debut): Vanessa Veselka, Zazen (Red Lemonade) PEN/Saul Bellow (fiction achievement): E. L. Doctorow PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon Books) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award (essay collection): Christopher Hitchens, Arguably (Twelve) PEN/ESPN Award […]