PEN Pinter Prize given to Arundhati Roy for her ‘unflinching’ writing
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The prestigious Pen Pinter Prize 2024 awarded to Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy for her “unflinching and unswerving” writings.
Founded in 2009 by the charity English PEN, the award defends freedom of expression, honours literature in memory of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.
She won the Booker Prize for his debut novel, The God of Small Things.
The judges this year, which included writer and musician Roger Robinson, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla, and president of English PEN Ruth Borthwick, chosen her.
On October 10, she will receive the award at a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library.
It is an annual award given for outstanding literary work written in English.
This award is given to a writer from the UK, Ireland, and the Commonwealth whose work shows a fearless exposition of truth about contemporary life.
