English PEN has named Margaret Atwood the winner of the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize. Vicky Featherstone, Zia Haider Rahman, Peter Stothard, Antonia Fraser, and Maureen Freely served on the judging panel.
Atwood will receive her award at a public ceremony scheduled to take place on October 13 at London’s British Library. Her address will be published as a limited edition booklet by Faber & Faber; copies will be given to members of the audience at the ceremony.
Here’s more from the press release: “The PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 by English PEN, founding centre of the worldwide writers’ association and freedom of expression charity, in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter. The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold 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.'” (via BBC News)