“It is a literary award and I’m sitting in rooms full of people whose books I have read and want to read, and I’m being honored among those people,” she said backstage after winning the award. Dickerson-Despenza attended the PEN America awards with her mother, and said she was honored to be recognized by an organization she has long admired. “I think a lot of the time, dramatic writers don’t always think we are also a part of literature. I do hope the archives will have a place, but we know that literature lasts,” she said. “And so to recognize literature and my dramatic work on and beyond the page is super special, and I will always remember this night.”

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2023 14:21 UTC