PEN Pinter Prize

Context: 

British children’s writer and performance poet Michael Rosen has been awarded the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize 2023.

• He was awarded because he championed a way of writing for children which reflects their everyday worlds, using humour and wordplay to validate their imaginative ways of thinking and being.

About PEN Pinter Prize

• Established in: 2009
• It is given in memory of Nobel-laureate playwright Harold Pinter. 
• The annual award is given to an author who: 
  1. must have a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English
  2. is from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth countries 
  3. who reflects a fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and our societies.
• Criteria for the annual award:
  • Must have significant plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of exceptional literary merit in English.
  • Reflects a fierce commitment to uncovering the truth about our lives and societies.
  • Nationality: From the UK, Ireland, or Commonwealth countries.

News Source: Indian Express