The Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature is presented annually to a British Writer. The winner is chosen by the Board of English PEN. In 2012 the prize was awarded to Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Previous winners
2011 – Dame Margaret Drabble
- 2010 – Sir Salman Rushdie
- 2009 – John Berger
- 2008 – JG Ballard
- 2007 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson
- 2006 – Michael Holroyd
- 2005 – Jan Morris
- 2004 – Nina Bawden
- 2003 – Michael Frayn
- 2002 – Doris Lessing
- 2001 – Harold Pinter
- 2000 – Francis King
- 1999 – Penelope Fitzgerald
- 1998 – Muriel Spark
- 1997 – Iris Murdoch
- 1996 – William Cooper
- 1995 – Stephen Spender
- 1994 – V. S. Pritchett
- 1993 – Sybille Bedford
Originally posted with the url: www.englishpen.org/prizes/golden/
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[...] As synchronicity would have it, we are remembering and celebrating all she gave to us even as we are congratulating our brother Linton Kwesi Johnson for his equally unique bending of the medium in the service of the Jamaican language and his dynamic bilingualism as a world first that eminently qualified him for the Golden Pen award. [...]