James Fenton, Honorary Fellow of Magdalen, poet and journalist has been awarded the 2015 Pen Pinter Prize.
The Prize is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.
Previous winners of the prize are Tony Harrison, Hanif Kureishi, David Hare, Carol Ann Duffy, Tom Stoppard and Salman Rushdie.
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