Pen Pinter Prize 2021

• 12 Jun 2021

• The celebrated Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been announced the winner of this year’s Pen Pinter Prize.
• She was also shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for her work, This Mournable Body.
• The PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter.
• The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or the former Commonwealth.
• The winning writer must, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.