title: Golden PEN Award
text: # 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". 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
  
  Golden PEN Award winners :
  
  | Year | Recipient |
  | - | - |
  | 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 |
  