A collection by young poets
Dilla Time by Dan Charnas has won the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Congratulations to Dan Charnas for his recent win at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm was praised as ‘a beautiful and daring rendering of a brilliant young man with all too human qualities and frailties, who died tragically young’. Judges say: ‘Charnas has created perhaps the truest tribute to Dilla and his legacy: a work of funky artistic achievement’.