David Hare wins PEN/Pinter prize

playwright David Hare said, "a worthy winner" award established by the English PEN to celebrate the late Harold Pinter

Since privatization of the railways for the invasion of Iraq, the banking crisis in the British press, the "firm, firm" look radical playwright David Hare, has formed the world in last 40 years was honored with the PEN / Pinter.

established by the PEN writers organization two years ago to celebrate the late Harold Pinter, the prize is awarded to a British writer of exceptional literary merit that, in the words of Pinter Prize Nobel in 2005, launching a "firm, unshakeable" world view, and shows a "fierce determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies." Pinter's widow Lady Antonia Fraser, who chose Hare as the recipient of this year with the judges of Gillian Slovo, Claire Tomalin, Michael Billington and winner of last year the novelist Hanif Kureishi, called "a worthy winner."

Fraser said: "During his long and distinguished career, David Hare has never failed to speak on the topic of politics in the broadest sense, this value, with its creative talent, wealth, made him a worthy winner of the "PEN / Pinter price. Billington said:" David Hare was a perfect choice for this award addressed the major public affairs in the last four years with great rigor and mind, is a playwright of the first order, and embodies the spirit of an award. Harold Pinter and celebrates both the PEN campaign tirelessly against injustice. ".

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• said "remarkable" the writer of many plays, set in Britain and post-war told through the eyes of the wife of a diplomat, the absence of war, almost of the Anglican Church, the legal system and the Labour Party, and The Blue Room, a series of sketches and sexual transmission equipment of the Iraq war. "Are you the person who plays on what is happening in the newspapers?" Is never an issue in a friendly way. Is not the answer really liked. "Someone has to Yes" Hare said in a lecture at the Royal Society of Literature last year.
• knighted in 1998, Hare is also a director of stage and screen, won an Olivier Award and a BAFTA. Pinter himself said the Hare play the way ongoing exploration of the privatization of British Rail, "the hare is guns and steel shows a compassion for people who are struggling with."

The admiration is mutual: The hare is a great devotee of the poet and playwright Pinter, who died in 2008, wrote in The Guardian, after Pinter won the Nobel Prize "for nearly 20 years, Harold was - often at considerable personal cost -. spokesman largest in this country for those who are helpless victims of belligerence and oppression as Arundhati Roy, worked to begin to redefine the idea that in times singularly dangerous, we may restrict expected to be an artist. In doing so, he has breathed fresh air into the musty attic of conventional British literature. "Now Hare is honored by the steps of Pinter.

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£ 1,000 PEN / Pinter prize won by Kureishi, and in its first year by the poet and playwright Tony Harrison, is shared with an imprisoned writer who was persecuted for speaking their beliefs. Author of this year will be elected by the PEN writers in Prison Committee, in partnership with the hare, and will be announced at a ceremony Oct. 10 at the British Library, where the playwright, will deliver a speech.

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