Resistance Resonance

Arundhati Roy wins PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Booker Prize-winning Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy has won the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. The announcement was made on the website of English PEN on June 27. According to the website, the award will be handed over to Arundhati Roy at a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on October 10, where she will deliver an address. The prize will be shared with a ‘Writer of Courage’ — a writer who is active in defence of freedom of expression, often at great risk to their own safety and liberty.  The co-winner, selected by Arundhati Roy from a shortlist of cases supported by English PEN, will be announced at the ceremony. Arundhati Roy was chosen as the PEN Pinter Prize winner in April by the judges, comprising the English PEN chair Ruth Borthwick, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla and writer and musician Roger Robinson. Ruth Borthwick congratulated Arundhati Roy on winning the PEN Pinter Prize. He said, ‘Roy tells urgent stories of injusti...