Plato, Proust, Pinter, Poe, Pound?
Canadian poet, novelist and
environmental activist Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize.
Canadian poet, novelist
and environmental activist Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize.
The drama moved to Broadway in 1967 and
won a Tony Award- Pinter's only Broadway honor.
Pinter had met Merchant when he was working as an actor, and
the couple had married in 1956.
Saudi blogger and social activist Raif Badawi and British poet and
critic James Fenton were jointly awarded with the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize.
Saudi blogger and activist Raif Badawi and British poet and critic James
Fenton were on 6 October 2015 awarded with the 2015 PEN Pinter Prize.
(From the LA Times) Although Pinter is best known as a playwright,
he was trained as an actor and performed in plays, movies and teleplays throughout his career.
Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005, but his
illness left him unable to travel from London to Stockholm in December 2005 for the Nobel presentation.
Although Pinter was unable to give his controversial Nobel
Lecture in person because of ill health, he delivered it from a television studio on video projected on screens to an audience at the Swedish Academy, in Stockholm.
The selection of Harold Pinter for the Prize in 2005 was delayed for a couple of days,
apparently due to Ahnlund's resignation, and led to renewed speculations about there being a"political element" in the Swedish Academy's awarding of the Prize.