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PEN Pinter Prize

Santhosh Kumar 30/06/2023

PEN Pinter Prize upsc notes
Context
Michael Rosen
British children’s writer
Performance poet
PEN Pinter Prize 2023 winner
Works
Over 140 books published
Themes often social, political, and ethical issues
Style reflects children’s everyday worlds
Validates imaginative thinking
About PEN Pinter Prize
Named after Harold Pinter
Established 2009
Winners
Michael Rosen (2023)
Hanif Kureishi (2010)
Salman Rushdie (2014)
Lemn Sissay (2019)
Criteria
A writer from the UK, Ireland, and the Commonwealth
Committed to fearless exposition of truth
Reflects fierce intellectual determination to define real truth of lives and societies

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