CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Canadian poet, novelist and environmental activist Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize. She will receive her award at a public event at the British Library on the evening of Thursday 13 October, where she will deliver an address.

Detailed explanation-2: -Writer Malorie Blackman has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2022. She will receive the award in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on 10 October 2022, where she will deliver an address.

Detailed explanation-3: -Former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman is awarded the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize for 2022, the first children’s and YA writer to receive it. At this event she delivers her keynote address at a ceremony hosted by British Library and English PEN.