Golden PEN Award

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Awarded for "A Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature"

The Golden PEN Award is a literary award established in 1993 by English PEN given annually to a British writer for "a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature". The winner is chosen by the Board of English PEN. The award has previously been called the S.T. Dupont Golden Pen Award.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Recipients

Previous winners.

1993 – Sybille Bedford

1994 – V. S. Pritchett

1995 – Stephen Spender

1996 – William Cooper

1997 – Iris Murdoch

1998 – Muriel Spark

1999 – Penelope Fitzgerald

2000 – Francis King

2001 – Harold Pinter

2002 – Doris Lessing

2003 – Michael Frayn

2004 – Nina Bawden

2005 – Jan Morris

2006 – Michael Holroyd

2007 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson

2008 – JG Ballard

2009 – John Berger

2010 – Salman Rushdie

2011 – Margaret Drabble

2012 – Linton Kwesi Johnson

2013 – Gillian Slovo

References

Golden PEN Award Wikipedia

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