Each year, English PEN presents four awards to outstanding writers.
The Golden PEN award is presented to a writer whose work has given both pleasure to readers and inspiration to their fellow writers. The winner is elected by the Trustees of English PEN.
The Hessell-Tiltman Prize was created in 2002 with a bequest from English PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year the prize goes to a historical work of high literary merit covering any historical period until the end of the second world war.
The PEN Pinter Prize is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination …to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.
The PEN Ackerley Award is given annually to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit. It is the only such award for life writing.
