Coffee House poet Saeed Jones wins PEN award

The 2015 PEN Literary Awards were announced today, and Minneapolis publisher Coffee House Press is a winner, with Saeed Jones' "Prelude to Bruise" taking the $5,000 Joyce Osterwell Award for Poetry. His book was also a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award in January. (Jones is pictured here with Amelia Foster of Coffee House, at AWP in April.)

Here's the list of winners, with more winners to be announced in June.

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000): "War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)," by Joshua Horwitz

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000): "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital," (Crown),: by Sheri Fink

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000): ."The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court," (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux),by Anna Whitelock

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000): For an emerging American poet showing promise of further literary achievement. Winner: Saeed Jones for "Prelude to Bruise" (Coffee House Press)

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): To honor a nonfiction book on the subject of sports published in 2014. "Boy on Ice," by John Branch (W.W.Norton)

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship ($5,000): For an author of children's or young-adult fiction to complete a book-length work-in-progress.Stephanie Keuhn for The Pragmatist

PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): For a writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field. Bob Ryan

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000): For a book-length translation of poetry into English published in 2014."I Am the Beggar of the World," (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), translated from the Pashto by Eliza Griswold

PEN Translation Prize ($3,000): For a book-length translation of prose into English published in 2014."Baboon," by Naja Marie Aidt (Two Lines Press), translated from the Danish by Denise Newman

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards ($7,500 and $2,500): Three awards which honor a Master American Dramatist, American Playwright in Mid-Career, and Emerging American Playwright.WINNER: Tina Howe

American Playwright in Mid-Career ($7,500) Winner: Anne Washburn

Emerging American Playwright ($2,500) Winner: Jennifer Blackmer

PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing ($2,500): For a magazine editor whose high literary taste has, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Rob Spillman for Tin House

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation: For a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through the body of his or her work. Winner: Burton Watson