Posted June 20th, 2014 by julia & filed under Press, Prizes.
Salman Rushdie has been awarded the 2014 PEN/Pinter Prize. It will be presented at a public event at the British Library on Thursday 9 October, at which Rushdie will deliver an address.
The PEN/Pinter Prize was established in 2009 by English PEN in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter. The prize is awarded annually to a British writer or writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit, who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, 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’’.
Salman Rushdie was chosen by this year’s judges Michael Billington, Antonia Fraser, Simon Jenkins, Kamila Shamsie and President of English PEN and Chair of Judges, Maureen Freely.
From:http://www.englishpen.org/salman-rushdie-awarded-the-2014-pen-pinter-prize/