PEN Pinter Prize [SEP] inception
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). 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,
Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist and human rights activist
Recipients 2011.
- PEN Pinter Prize: David Hare, playwright
- International Writer of Courage Award: Roberto Saviano, Italian writer and journalist
Recipients 2012.
- PEN Pinter Prize: Carol Ann Duffy, poet
- International Writer of Courage Award: Samar Yazbek, Syrian writer
Recipients 2013.
- PEN Pinter Prize: Tom Stoppard, playwright
- International Writer of Courage Award: Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist
Recipients 2014.
- PEN Pinter Prize: Salman