Noble Laurette Amartya Sen is the latest recipient of the Bodley Medal. The honour was awarded to Sen during the Founder's Lunch by Lord Patten, by Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian. The Founder's lunch is an annual event commemorating the birth of the Libraries’ founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, and his legacy of philanthropy.
The Bodley Medal is awarded by the Bodleian Libraries to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the worlds in which the Bodleian is active including literature, culture, science and communication.
Past winners include biographer Claire Tomalin, novelist and screenwriter William Boyd, classicist Mary Beard, physicist Stephen Hawking, film director Nicholas Hytner, novelist Hilary Mantel, the late poet Seamus Heaney, writer and actor Alan Bennett and inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
