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Irish PEN AT Cross Award for Literature
In 1998 Irish PEN set up an award to honour an Irish-born writer who has made an outstanding contribution to Irish Literature. This Award is for a significant body of work, written and produced over a number of years, and is open to novelists, playwrights, poets, scriptwriters etc.
Members of Irish PEN, as well as previous winners nominate and vote for the candidate. In keeping with the tradition started at the W.B. Yeats dinner in 1935, the writer is presented with the Award in the company of other writers at our annual dinner.
A.T. Cross, the worlds leading producer of quality pens and writing instruments is the ideal sponsor. In 1999 the first Irish PEN / A.T.Cross Award was presented to John B. Keane. Since then Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, John McGahern, Neil Jordan, Seamus Heaney, Jennifer Johnston, Maeve Binchy and Thomas Kilroy have been recipients.
Previous winners of the Irish PEN / AT Cross Award for Literature »