PEN/Pinter Prize is an Annual Literary Award l launched in 2009 by English PEN (PEN International (International PEN to 2011), the worldwide association of witers,was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere) in honour of the late Harold Pinter,
who had been an active member of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee, and
an 'active defender of the whole enterprise of literature'.
The award is shared between a British writer who in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech, ‘casts an unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world’and an international winner – an imprisoned writer of courage
Exiled Syrian author Samar Yazbek is to share this year's(2012) Pen Pinter literary prize with poet Carol Ann Duffy.
Samar Yazbek is being recognised for her book A Woman In The Crossfire, which is based on diaries she kept during the early stages of the Syrian conflict.
It details how her outspoken views against President Assad's government led to persecution, and her decision to flee Syria with her young daughter.
Ann Duffy, who is Poet Laureate, was named the winner of the main prize in July 2012.
The award is shared between a British writer who in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech, ‘casts an unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world’and an international winner – an imprisoned writer of courage
Exiled Syrian author Samar Yazbek is to share this year's(2012) Pen Pinter literary prize with poet Carol Ann Duffy.
Samar Yazbek is being recognised for her book A Woman In The Crossfire, which is based on diaries she kept during the early stages of the Syrian conflict.
It details how her outspoken views against President Assad's government led to persecution, and her decision to flee Syria with her young daughter.
Ann Duffy, who is Poet Laureate, was named the winner of the main prize in July 2012.
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