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Sergio De La Pava Wins $25,000 Prize

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PEN America just announced that Sergio De La Pava, author of The Naked Singularity, has won the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. The annual $25,000 prize goes to an author “whose debut work — a first novel or collection of short stories published in 2012 — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.”
To see the other 2013 PEN Literary Award winners, including Katherine Boo, Robert Hass, and Frank Deford, click here.
