1. Jennifer Clement is the first and only woman president of PEN International, elected in 2015.
10 Facts About Jennifer Clement
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Jennifer Clement moved to the United States to finish high school at Cranbrook Kingswood School, before studying English Literature and Anthropology at New York University.
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Jennifer Clement received her MFA from the University of Southern Maine.
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Jennifer Clement is the co-director and founder, with her sister Barbara Sibley, of the San Miguel Poetry Week.
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Jennifer Clement's first novel, A True Story Based on Lies, was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Jennifer Clement's prize-winning story A Salamander-Child is published as an art book, with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy.
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Jennifer Clement is a member of Mexico's prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
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Jennifer Clement served as President of PEN Mexico from 2009 to 2012.
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Jennifer Clement was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Literature in 2012 for her novel Prayers for the Stolen and was honored with The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for that work.
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Jennifer Clement is the recipient of the UK's Canongate Prize.