Golden PEN Award
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The Golden PEN Award is a prestigious literary honor presented by PEN to recognize a writer’s outstanding lifetime contribution to literature and freedom of expression.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Golden Pen of Freedom | 1 |
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
PEN award
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lifetime achievement award ⓘ literary award ⓘ |
| associatedWith | PEN International ⓘ |
| awardedFor |
lifetime contribution to freedom of expression
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lifetime contribution to literature ⓘ |
| category | international literary award ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eligibility | writers with a significant body of work ⓘ |
| field |
freedom of expression
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literature ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | non-genre-specific literature ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.englishpen.org ⓘ |
| inception | 1993 ⓘ |
| location |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| namedAfter | PEN ⓘ |
| notableRecipient |
Doris Lessing
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Harold Pinter ⓘ J. M. Coetzee ⓘ Kazuo Ishiguro ⓘ Margaret Atwood ⓘ Nadine Gordimer ⓘ Philip Pullman ⓘ Salman Rushdie ⓘ Seamus Heaney ⓘ Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
| organizer | English PEN ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
PEN
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PEN International ⓘ |
| purpose |
to recognize a writer’s outstanding lifetime contribution to freedom of expression
ⓘ
to recognize a writer’s outstanding lifetime contribution to literature ⓘ |
| recognizes |
essayists
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non-fiction writers ⓘ novelists ⓘ playwrights ⓘ poets ⓘ writers defending free expression ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
defence of freedom of expression
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literary merit ⓘ |
| sponsor | English PEN ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eskinder Nega
this entity surface form:
Golden Pen of Freedom
subject surface form:
Salman Rushdie