Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award

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Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/philip-roth-receives-literary-award-044902076.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F1gza7bXQbp5y.60xzvLIg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/76a4a7629bca940e300f6a7067000a9c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. On Tuesday night, April 30, 2013 Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. He was cited for such novels as &quot;Sabbath's Theater&quot; and &quot;American Pastoral,&quot; but also for his advocacy in the 1970s and 1980s for writers in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries during the Cold War. PEN is an international writers' organization that advocates for human rights and free speech. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)" align="left" title="FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. On Tuesday night, April 30, 2013 Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. He was cited for such novels as &quot;Sabbath's Theater&quot; and &quot;American Pastoral,&quot; but also for his advocacy in the 1970s and 1980s for writers in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries during the Cold War. PEN is an international writers' organization that advocates for human rights and free speech. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)" border="0" /></a>NEW YORK (AP) â€" Philip Roth's latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work.</p><br clear="all"/>

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