Pen Pinter Prize 2026: Jacqueline Rose
British Library96 Euston Road
Thu 8 Oct · 19:00 · £16
About this event
This year’s PEN Pinter Prize is awarded to writer and critic Jacqueline Rose, who receives her award and delivers a lecture at this special event.The Prize is given annually in memory of Nobel Laureate playwright Harold Pinter to a writer of outstanding literary merit, who, in Pinter’s words, 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’.The Prize will be shared with the 2026 PEN Pinter Writer of Courage, a writer who is active in defence of freedom of expression, often at great risk to their own safety and liberty. The co-winner, selected by Jacqueline Rose, will be announced at the event.Jacqueline Rose was chosen as the 2026 PEN Pinter Prize winner by this year’s judges: Chair of English PEN, Ruth Borthwick; author and poet Will Harris; and playwright and screenwriter Tanika Gupta.The PEN Pinter Prize is supported by the generosity of Faber and Ruth Allison.
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