The British poet and playwright Lemn Sissay has been awarded the prestigious 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. The award – founded in 2009 in memory of Pinter and won by such authors as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Tom Stoppard – is assigned every year to an English, Irish or Commonwealth writer who, as Harold himself
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Michael Longley shares the PEN Pinter Prize with Mahvash Sabet
On 10th October the Iranian teacher and poet received the International Writer of Courage Award 2017
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The Return of the Handmaid… Remembering Pinter’s adaptation
In 1990 Pinter adapted Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985) known in Italy as “Il racconto dell’ancella”.
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Michael Longley has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2017
“Harold Pinter was a great playwright. I have loved and admired his work for many years.
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