List of Recipients
- 2011: Julian Barnes
- 2009: Seamus Heaney
- 2007: Derek Mahon
- 2005: Michael Holroyd
- 2003: Beryl Bainbridge and Thom Gunn (joint winners)
- 2001: Doris Lessing
- 1999: William Trevor
- 1997: Muriel Spark
- 1995: Harold Pinter
- 1993: V. S. Naipaul
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