Lemn Sissay is the winner of the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize

Posted in June 5, 2019
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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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Lady Antonia confers prize to Sarah Hanly

Posted in April 4, 2019
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Sarah Hanly from Ireland is the winner of the 2019 “Harold Pinter Playwright Award”, the prize given out annually by Harold Pinter’s widow to support upcoming playwrights. Lady Antonia commented: … “I believe that the Pinter Commission is exactly what Harold would have wanted. Because he had experienced the devastating rejection of his early work,

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