Golden PEN Award
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".[1] The winner is chosen by the Board of English PEN. The award has previously been called the S.T. Dupont Golden Pen Award.
| Golden PEN Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "A Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature" |
| Country | England |
| Hosted by | English PEN |
| First awarded | 1993 |
| Last awarded | Active |
| Website | 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.[2]
- 1993 – Sybille Bedford
- 1994 – V. S. Pritchett
- 1995 – Stephen Spender
- 1996 – William Cooper
- 1997 – Iris Murdoch
- 1998 – Muriel Spark
- 1999 – Penelope Fitzgerald[3]
- 2000 – Francis King
- 2001 – Harold Pinter[4]
- 2002 – Doris Lessing
- 2003 – Michael Frayn
- 2004 – Nina Bawden[5]
- 2005 – Jan Morris[6]
- 2006 – Michael Holroyd
- 2007 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson[7]
- 2008 – JG Ballard
- 2009 – John Berger[8]
- 2010 – Salman Rushdie
- 2011 – Margaret Drabble[9]
- 2012 – Linton Kwesi Johnson[1]
- 2013 – Gillian Slovo[10]
References
- Alison Flood (3 December 2012). "Linton Kwesi Johnson wins Golden PEN award". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- Staff writer. "Golden Pen Award". Golden Pen Award. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- Cathy Hartley (2003). A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Psychology Press. p. 349.
- Leslie Kane (2004). "Introduction". The Art of Crime: The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Psychology Press. p. 2.
- Sherna Noah (22 August 2012). "Carrie's War author Nina Bawden dies". The Independent. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- Gillian Fenwick (2008). "Chronology". Traveling Genius: The Writing Life of Jan Morris. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. XX. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- "Josephine Pullein-Thompson Collection". Collections - Special Collections. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- Catherine Neilan (8 December 2009). "Berger picks up Golden PEN award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- Benedicte Page (1 December 2011). "Drabble wins Golden PEN". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- Liz Bury (3 December 2013). "Gillian Slovo wins Golden PEN award". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
External links
- Golden Pen Award, official website.
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