Cormac McCarthy Wins PEN/Saul Bellow Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted on May 4, 2009

Cormac McCarthy has won another literary honor. He has been awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American fiction. The award carries a cash prize of $25,000.

McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, a National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses, and saw the film adaptation of No Country for Old Men win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Other awards form the PEN American Center, included a nonfiction award for The bin Ladens by Steve Coll and citations to 20 other authors for achievement in short fiction. Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer and Ha Jin were among those honored.

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