| The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service were created under the will of the late Ralph Hayes, an influential American business executive and philanthropist. Hayes conceived the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide. Hayes served on the board of directors of PNC Bank, Delaware's predecessor banks from 1935 to 1965. Through the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to recognize outstanding achievement in eight disciplines: dramatic arts, literature, science, invention, mass communications, public service, government and sociology. The awards also provide an incentive for people to make future contributions to the world community. |
Check all the winners of Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service presented under Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service since 1980 .
Salman Rushdie(Literature) |
Don DeLillo(Literature) |
Ian McEwan(Literature) |
Rita Dove(Literature) |
Amy Tan(Literature) |
Isabel Allende(Literature) |
Joyce Carol Oates(Literature) |
Carlos Fuentes(Literature) |
Philip Roth(Literature) |
E. L. Doctorow(Literature) |
John Irving(Literature) |
Saul Bellow(Literature) |
Seamus Heaney(Literature) |
Derek Walcott(Literature) |
William Styron(Literature) |
John Updike(Literature) |
James A. Michener(Literature) |
Adrienne Rich(Literature) |
Aharon Appelfeld(Literature) |
Toni Morrison(Literature) |
Andrei Voznesensky(Literature) |
John Ashbery(Literature) |
Max Frisch(Literature) |
Eudora Welty(Literature) |
Christopher Isherwood(Literature) |
Wright Morris(Literature) |
Nadine Gordimer(Literature) |
Milan Kundera(Literature) |
Gabriel García Márquez(Literature) |
Robert Penn Warren(Literature) |
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