PEN Pinter Prize
The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC).[1][2] The award is given to "a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world and shows 'a fierce, intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies'."[3][4] The Prize is shared with an "International Writer of Courage," defined as "someone who has been persecuted for speaking out about [his or her] beliefs," selected by English PEN's Writers at Risk Committee in consultation with the annual Prize winner, and announced during an award ceremony held at the British Library, on or around 10 October, the anniversary of Pinter's birth.[1][5]
The PEN Pinter Prize is one of the many PEN literary awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in "more than 100" PEN International Centers located around the world.
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Recipients
2009
- PEN Pinter Prize: Tony Harrison, poet and playwright[4]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Zarganar (Maung Thura)[1] (aka "Zaganar" and "Zargana"), a popular Burmese poet, comedian, film actor and director, and a fierce critic of the military government who, since 2008, had been serving a prison sentence of a minimum of 35 years before being released by a prisoner amnesty in 2011.[6]
2010
- PEN Pinter Prize: Hanif Kureishi[7]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist and human rights activist[7]
2011
- PEN Pinter Prize: David Hare, playwright[8]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Roberto Saviano, Italian writer and journalist[2]
2012
- PEN Pinter Prize: Carol Ann Duffy, poet[9]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Samar Yazbek, Syrian writer; for A Woman in the Crossfire[10]
2013
- PEN Pinter Prize: Tom Stoppard, playwright[11]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist [12]
2014
- PEN Pinter Prize: Salman Rushdie, novelist[5][13]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Mazen Darwish, Syrian lawyer and journalist[14]
2015
- PEN Pinter Prize: James Fenton[15]
- International Writer of Courage Award: Raif Badawi
See also
References
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External links
- PEN Pinter Prize − English PEN official webpage
