Current Context : Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize 2024.

• Arundhati Roy will receive the award in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on October 10.

ABOUT AWARD

• The PEN (Poet, Playwright, Editors Essayist, Novelist) Pinter is an annual award set up in 2009 by English PEN in the memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter.
• It is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom.
• The award is given to writers in the English language who have produced outstanding literary work in plays, poetry, essays, or fiction.

ABOUT ARUNDHATI

Arundhati Roy is the first Indian to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997 for her fiction ‘The God of Small Things’.