PEN Pinter Prize, 2024

  • On 27 June, the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize 2024 was awarded to Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy for her "unflinching and uncompromising" writing.
  • Established in 2009 by charity English PEN, the prize defends freedom of expression and honours literature in memory of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.
  • She won the Booker Prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things.
  • This year's jury included writer and musician Roger Robinson, actor and activist Khalid Abdullah, and English PEN president Ruth Borthwick, who selected her.
  • She will receive the award at a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on 10 October.


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