Jalandhar-born author wins US literary award Tribune News Service Tribune News Servic Jalandhar, November 4 Jalandhar-born Indian author Manjeet Singh has been named among the winners of the 2012 PEN Awards, considered to be the most comprehensive literary awards in the US, for his non-fiction work on the US. Described as a “gripping analysis” of the country and an “important book” of current times, Manjeet’s book ‘The Cover of Naked Man’ won the ‘PEN Open Book Award’, which carries a USD 5,000 cash reward “for an exceptional work of literature by an author of colour.” The judges said in their citation that the book is a “wildly original and enjoyable tour of the contemporary USA in flux as globalisation’s impact takes hold.” The book chronicles varying lives in the contemporary US, including that of highly-paid call centre workers, an entertainment mogul and the tragedy of the suicides. Manjeet Singh gives a gripping analysis of what is happening in the US, where an uncertain world is being built from its newest industries and oldest traditions, as well as a portrait of our own new and uncertain America in the background, also in crisis. “An important book for our times,” the citation said. The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Centers Open Book Committee, which is a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. The city-based PEN American Centre was founded in 1922 and its membership of over 3,000 writers and editors includes literary luminaries like author Salman Rushdie, American poet Robert Frost and essayist Arther Miller. For over 50 years, PEN’s Literary Awards programme has honoured many of the most outstanding voices in literature. This year PEN presented 18 awards, fellowships and grants totalling USD 1,75,000.
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