- Source: Benson Medal
The Benson Medal is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of Literature in the UK.
It was founded in 1916 by A. C. Benson who was a Fellow of the Society, to honour those who produce "meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history, and belles-lettres". The medal has been awarded several times to writers in other languages, and is occasionally awarded those who are not writers, but who have done conspicuous service to literature.
The medal is awarded at irregular intervals for lifelong achievement. Recipients include:
Edmund Blunden,
Anita Desai,
Maureen Duffy,
E. M. Forster,
Christopher Fry,
John Gawsworth,
Nadine Gordimer,
Philip Larkin,
R. K. Narayan
A. L. Rowse,
George Santayana,
Wole Soyinka,
Lytton Strachey,
J. R. R. Tolkien, and
Helen Waddell.
In November 2020, the new design for the medal by Linda Crook was unveiled. The design includes books on one side, and people on the other.
Recent recipients
= 2022
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Sandra Agard
= 2021
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Alastair Niven
= 2020
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Boyd Tonkin
= 2019
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Susheila Nasta
= 2018
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Liz Calder
= 2017
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Margaret Busby
Carmen Callil
Mary-Kay Wilmers
= 2016
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Christopher MacLehose
= 2015
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Nancy Sladek
= 2014
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Deirdre Le Faye
Valentina Polukhina
= 2013
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Wm. Roger Louis
= 2012
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David Pease
Jenny Uglow
= 2011
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Diana Athill
Francis King
Earlier recipients
2010: Al Alvarez
2009: Mark Le Fanu; Kay Dunbar
2008: John Saumarez Smith; Douglas Matthews
2007: Nadine Gordimer
2006: Ronald Blythe; Joan Winterkorn – manuscript expert
2005: Edward Upward
2004: Maureen Duffy; James Parker
2003: Anita Desai ; David Sutton
2000: Christopher Fry
1996: Shusaku Endo
1993: Julien Green
1990: Wole Soyinka ;
1989: Anthony Burgess ; Nadine Gordimer
1982: A. L. Rowse
1981: Sir Sacheverell Sitwell ; Odysseas Elytis
1979: R. K. Narayan
1975: Philip Larkin
1969: Cecil Woodham-Smith
1966: J. R. R. Tolkien ; Rebecca West ; E. V. Rieu
1952: Frederick S. Boas
1941: Christopher La Farge
1940: Christopher Hassall ; John Gawsworth
1939: F. L. Lucas ; Andrew Young ;
1938: E. M. Forster ; G. M. Young
1934: Edith Sitwell
1931: Stella Benson ; Siegfried Sassoon
1930: Edmund Blunden
1927: Frederick Arthur Simpson ; Helen Waddell
1926: Percy Lubbock ; Robert Wilson Lynd ; Harold Nicolson
1925: Gordon Bottomley ; George Santayana
1923: Lytton Strachey
1917: Gabriele d'Annunzio ; Benito Pérez Galdós ; Maurice Barres
References
External links
"The Benson Medal" at The Royal Society of Literature website.
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