{"id":88535,"date":"2017-02-08T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88535"},"modified":"2017-02-08T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T01:11:10","slug":"stephen-sondheim-to-receive-pen-literary-service-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/08\/stephen-sondheim-to-receive-pen-literary-service-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Sondheim to receive PEN &#8216;literary service&#8217; award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88536\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/551793_10150804693997985_2027323454_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88536\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/551793_10150804693997985_2027323454_n.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Sondheim's latest honour comes from literary and human rights organization PEN America. (Photo: Stephen Sondheim (Masterworks Broadway)\/ Facebook)\" width=\"574\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/551793_10150804693997985_2027323454_n.jpg 574w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/551793_10150804693997985_2027323454_n-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s latest honour comes from literary and human rights organization PEN America. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephensondheim\">Stephen Sondheim (Masterworks Broadway)\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s latest honour comes from literary and human rights organization PEN America.<\/p>\n<p>The group announced Wednesday that the composer is this year&#8217;s recipient of the PEN\/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. Meryl Streep will present Sondheim with the award at the group&#8217;s annual literary gala April 25 at the American Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n<p>Sondheim has written music or lyrics or both for \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d \u201cSweeney Todd,\u201d \u201cInto the Woods\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p>PEN will also honour Macmillan CEO John Sargent for his advocacy of publishers&#8217; and authors&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second straight year PEN has cited a publisher who confronted Amazon. In 2010, Amazon removed \u201cBuy\u201d buttons from Macmillan books, including works by Jonathan Franzen and Hilary Mantel, in a dispute over e-book prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s latest honour comes from literary and human rights organization PEN America. The group announced Wednesday that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[14881,14880],"class_list":["post-88535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-pen-america","tag-stephen-sondheim","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}