The Benson Medal
The following have been awarded Benson medals:
1917 Gabriele d'Annunzio
Benito Perez Galdos
Maurice Barres
1923 Lytton Strachey
1925 Gordon Bottomley
George Santayana
1926 Percy Lubbock
Robert Lynd
Harold Nicolson
1927 F.A. Simpson
Helen Waddell
1930 Edmund Blunden
1931 Stella Benson
1934 Edith Sitwell
1938 E.M. Forster
G.M. Young
1939 F.L. Lucas
Andrew Young
1940 John Gawsworth
Christopher Hassall
1941 Christopher La Farge
1952 F. S. Boas
1966 J.R.R. Tolkien
Rebecca West
E. V. Rieu
1969 Cecil Woodham-Smith
1975 Philip Larkin
1979 R.K. Narayan
1981 Odysseus Elytis
Sacheverell Sitwell
1982 A.L. Rowse
1989 Anthony Burgess
Nadine Gordimer
1990 Wole Soyinka
1993 Julien Green
1996 Shusaku Endo
2000 Christopher Fry
2002 David Sutton
Anita Desai
2004 James Parker
Maureen Duffy
2005 Edward Upward
2006 Ronald Blythe
Joan Winterkorn
2007 Nadine Gordimer
2008 John Saumarez Smith
Douglas Matthews
2009 Mark Le Fanu
Kay Dunbar
2010 Al Alvarez
2011 Diana Athill
Francis King
2012 David Pease
Jenny Uglow
2013 Wm. Roger Louis