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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.
Succeeded by PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award (see above). 1987–2015 Inactive PEN/Steven Kroll Award "to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers." 2012–2014 Inactive PEN/W.G. Sebald Award: To honor a promising writer who has published three works of fiction. 2010–2011 Inactive PEN Emerging Writers Awards
English PEN is a membership organisation, with a community of more than 1,000 members including novelists, journalists, nonfiction writers, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, human rights activists, and readers. [22] English PEN membership is open to all who subscribe to the aims outlined in the PEN Charter ...
The books are to be of high literary merit, but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the English PEN. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s; on her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name. [1] Each year's winner receives £2,000. [1]
Pages in category "English PEN awards" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ackerley Prize; G.
The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) to outstanding translations into the English language. It has been presented annually by PEN America and the Book of the Month Club since 1963.
The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the .International PEN Writers in Committee (WiPC).
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize was originally named the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. The prize awards the debut writer a cash award of US$25,000. The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize was established in memory of Robert W. Bingham , who died in 1999 at the age of 33, to commemorate his support of young writers, his love of literature ...