pen painter award 2023

• The prestigious PEN Pinter Award 2023 has been awarded to children's author and performance poet Michael Rosen.

• In more than 140 books, she has taken an approach to writing for children that reflects their everyday world.

• She served as the Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009 and is known for making poetry accessible to children through her work and performances.

• Some of Rosen's best-known books include You Can't Catch Me (1982), You Wait Till I'm Older Than You (1996), Rover (2007), Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2012, on the writing life of Roald Dahl).

• Some of the famous PEN Pinter Prize winners include Hanif Qureshi (2010), Salman Rushdie (2014), Lemon Cisse (2019), and Mallory Blackman (2022).