The British poet is praised by the jury for ‘speaking truth to power – forcefully, fearlessly and beautifully’
Hailed by judges for speaking “truth to power – forcefully, fearlessly, and beautifully”, the British poet and journalist James Fenton has been named as winner of this year’s PEN Pinter prize.
The award takes its criteria from the late writer Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, in which he spoke of his belief that, as citizens, it is “mandatory” to cast an “unflinching, unswerving” gaze upon the world and show a “fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”.
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