Popular British children's author Michael Rosen, who has written over 200 books for kids and adults, has been announced as the winner of the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize for 2023. Praising his works, the judges called them “fearless” writings that gives a “lesson in humanity".
Named in honour and memory of English writer Harold Pinter, the PEN Pinter Prize is a prestigious award which is given to a writer who reflects a “fierce intellectual determination (to) define the real truth of our lives and our societies,” as per Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech given in 2005. The annual award is open for writers from the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth.
