George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson win PEN achievement awards

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Award winner George C. Wolfe and the Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this year’s winners of PEN America awards for career achievement. Wolfe’s credits range from writing the musical “Jelly’s Last Jam” to directing “Angels In America.” He has received the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award for work which “enlightens and inspires audiences.” Carson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle poetry award and an acclaimed translator of Greek drama. She has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for work of “enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship.”