Golden Pen Awards Winners

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