Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy has won the PEN Pinter Prize 2024.
The charity English PEN, founder of PEN Pinter Prize, announced the news on its website on Thursday.
According to the website, the award will be handed over to Arundhati Roy at a ceremony scheduled to be held on October 10.
Arundhati Roy was chosen as the PEN Pinter Prize winner in April by the judges, comprising chair of English PEN Ruth Borthwick, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla and writer and musician Roger Robinson.
Congratulating Arundhati Roy for winning the PEN Pinter Prize, Ruth Borthwick said, 鈥楻oy tells urgent stories of injustice with wit and beauty. While India remains an important focus, she is truly an internationalist thinker and her powerful voice is not to be silenced.鈥�
Arundhati Roy said that she was delighted to accept the PEN Pinter Prize.
鈥業 wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write about the almost incomprehensible turn the world is taking. Since he isn鈥檛, some of us must do our utmost to try to fill his shoes,鈥� said Arundhati Roy, who won the Booker Prize for her first novel titled 鈥楾he God of Small Things鈥� in 1997.
The PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter.
Among others, Michael Rosen, Malorie Blackman, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lemn Sissay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Longley have previously bagged the award.
