Winners

2017Tom Stoppard

2015Tony Harrison

2013Hilary Mantel

2011Julian Barnes

2009Seamus Heaney

2007Derek Mahon

2005Michael Holroyd

2003Beryl Bainbridge

2003Thom Gunn

2001Doris Lessing

1999William Trevor

1997Muriel Spark

1995Harold Pinter

1993V S Naipaul