CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker -shortlisted Zimbabwean writer, has won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021. The annual award is given to an author who, the website specifies, must have “a significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Bahraini academic-activist-blogger Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace was named as PEN Pinter Prize International Writer of Courage 2022 by author Malorie Blackman, PEN Pinter Prize 2022 winner, on October 10.

Detailed explanation-3: -Praising Blackman and her works, the judges said “for more than two decades she has delivered visionary and challenging work that resonates far beyond the written page, ” in a statement on the award’s website.