Hanif Kureishi scoops PEN Pinter prize
Harold Pinter's wife heads jury that honours The Buddha of Suburbia author for 'speaking the truth beyond any platitudes'
"Courageous and irreverent" novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi has won this year's PEN Pinter prize, which goes to a writer who – in the words of Harold Pinter's Nobel speech – casts an "unflinching, unswerving" gaze upon the world.
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Friday, 17 September, 2010
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