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Detailed explanation-1: -Meena Kandasamy, Chennai-born anti-caste activist, novelist and poet, has been named as this year’s recipient of the Hermann Kesten award, which recognizes her work on the themes of caste, gender and ethnic oppressions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Meena Kandasamy is a Chennai-born anti-caste activist, novelist and poet. The award recognizes her work on topics of race, gender and ethnic oppression. Ms Kandasamy joins a list of notable figures such as Günter Grass and Harold Pinter, whom Penn has seen as defenders of freedom of expression.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Hermann Kesten Prize honours personalities, who in the spirit of the charter of the PEN association, stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists.

Detailed explanation-5: -This year’s award goes to Meena Kandasamy, an Indian author and poet, whose books include “The Gypsy Goddess, ” (2014) and “When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife” (2017).