developed a close relationship with the artist Alvin Lustig, who designed modernist abstract book jackets. Lustig was ultimately responsible for developing a distinctive style of dust jacket that served as a New Directions hallmark for many years. The company's colophon is a figure of a centaur based upon a sculpture by Heinz Henghes, and usually appears on the spine of New Directions books. Presidents James Laughlin Griselda Ohannessian Peggy Fox Barbara Epler Awards In 1977, New Directions was presented with a Carey Thomas Award special citation for distinguished publishing in experimental literature. New Directions' authors have won numerous national and international awards, including the: Nobel Prize Tomas Tranströmer, 2011 Octavio Paz, 1990 Camilo José Cela, 1989 Elias Canetti, 1981 Eugenio Montale, 1975 Pablo Neruda, 1971 Yasunari Kawabata, 1968 Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964 Saint-John Perse, 1960 Boris Pasternak, 1958 Andre Gide, 1947 Hermann Hesse, 1946 Frédéric Mistral, 1904 Pulitzer Prize Hilton Als, 2017 Gary Snyder, 1975 George Oppen, 1969 Richard Eberhart, 1966 William Carlos Williams, 1963 Tennessee Williams, 1948, 1955 Robert Penn Warren, 1947, 1958, 1979 National Book Award Yoko Tawada, 2018 Nathaniel Mackey, 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship John Keene, 2018 Peter Cole, 2007 Lydia Davis, 2003 Anne Carson, 2000 Guy Davenport, 1990 Allen Grossman, 1989 Walter Abish, 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Toby Olson, 1983 Prix Goncourt Mathias Énard, 2015 Eugène Guillevic, 1988 Emile Ajar, 1975 Romain Gary, 1956 Man Booker International Prize Laszlo Krasznahorkai / George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Jenny Erpenbeck / Susan Bernofsky, 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Denise Levertov, 1976 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry Nathaniel Mackey, 2015 Susan Howe, 2011 Allen Grossman, 2009 Robert Creeley, 1999 Gary Snyder, 1997 Robert Penn Warren, 1967 Robert Fitzgerald, 1961 Delmore Schwartz, 1960 Ezra Pound, 1948 Robert Frost Medal Susan Howe, 2017 Kamau Brathwaite, 2015 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2003 Denise Levertov, 1999 James Laughlin, 1999 Robert Creeley, 1987 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize John Keene, 2018 Hilton Als, 2016 Vilenica Kristal Prize Luljeta Lleshanaku, 2009 Current projects The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and introducing to the US contemporary international writers; publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose; and reissuing New Directions' classic titles in new editions. Drawing from the tradition of the early anthologies and series, New Directions launched the Pearl series, which presents short works by New Directions writers in slim, minimalist volumes designed by Rodrigo Corral. Recent additions to the series