{"id":12705,"date":"2023-07-01T05:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:31:19","slug":"pen-pinter-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pen-pinter-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PEN Pinter Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About PEN Pinter Prize:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The winner must be the author of a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English.<\/li>\n<li>It is given to a writer from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth whose work is committed to a fearless exposition of truth about contemporary life.<\/li>\n<li>The prize is shared with an international writer of courage selected by English PEN\u2019s Writers at Risk Committee in association with the winner.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This half of the prize is awarded to someone who has been persecuted for speaking out about their beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the Previous this award winning writers are Malorie Blackman(2022), Tsitsi Dangarembga (2021) Hanif Kureishi (2010), Salman Rushdie (2014), and Lemn Sissay (2019).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Who is Michael Rosen?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He is known for making poetry accessible to children through his work and performances and themes are often social, political and ethical.<\/li>\n<li>In over 140 books, he has championed a way of writing for children which reflects their everyday worlds, using humour and wordplay to validate their imaginative ways of thinking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Nobel Prize ?<\/h3>\n<p>The Nobel Prize is a set of prestigious international awards given annually in several categories to individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields. It is given for six categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-culture\/michael-rosen-pen-pinter-prize-glimpse-into-work-8692653\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Michael Rosen wins this year\u2019s PEN Pinter Prize: A glimpse into the work of the children\u2019s writer<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}