The Sydney PEN Award was established in 2006. it is presented annually to a Sydney PEN member who has worked especially hard to promote the organisation's values and the PEN Charter.
The winner is nominated and selected by Sydney PEN’s management committee.
Sydney PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, is an association of Australian writers and readers, publishers and human rights activists. PEN International, the worldwide association of writers, emphasises the role of literature in mutual understanding and world culture; and promotes literature in various ways, including opposing restraints on freedom of expression and working to promote literacy itself.
Source: http://pen.org.au/about-us/sydney-pen-award Sighted: 10/12/2013.
The Sydney PEN Award was intstituted in 2006 'through the generosity of long-time Sydney PEN member Jane Morgan, and the kind support of Charles Wolf, of The Pen Shop, Sydney.'
Source: Quarterly Sydney PEN 126 (2006): 13
