The first ever PEN/Pinter Prize to be awarded to Tony Harrison
6.30-7.30pm
Wednesday 14th October
The Conference Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London, NW1 2DB
Wednesday 14th October
The Conference Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London, NW1 2DB
In a rare public appearance, Tony Harrison will pay tribute to Harold Pinter and accept the prize in a speech to be published in a limited edition by Faber & Faber following the event. He will also announce the winner of the international category of the prize.
Tickets to the event are available from the British Library box office via http://boxoffice.bl.uk/ or by calling 01937 546546. Each audience member will receive limited edition copy Tony Harrison’s speech
The prize has been established by the writers’ charity English PEN in memory of the Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter. It will be shared annually between a writer who exemplifies Pinter’s commitment to ‘the reality of our times’, and an imprisoned writer of courage.
Tickets to the event are available from the British Library box office via http://boxoffice.bl.uk/ or by calling 01937 546546. Each audience member will receive limited edition copy Tony Harrison’s speech
The prize has been established by the writers’ charity English PEN in memory of the Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter. It will be shared annually between a writer who exemplifies Pinter’s commitment to ‘the reality of our times’, and an imprisoned writer of courage.
The judges for the inaugural PEN/Pinter Prize were Antonia Fraser, Nicholas Hytner, Mark Lawson, Tom Stoppard, and Lisa Appignanesi, President of English PEN.
Tony Harrison:
Tony Harrison was born in Leeds in 1937. His volumes of poetry include The Loiners (winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), Continuous, v. (broadcast on Channel 4 in 1987, winning the Royal Television Society Award), The Gaze of the Gorgon (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Poetry) and Laureate’s Block.
Recognised as Britain’s leading theatre and film poet, Tony Harrison has written extensively for the National Theatre, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the BBC, Channel 4, the RSC, and for unique ancient spaces in Greece, Austria and Japan.
His film Black Daisies for the Bride won the Prix Italia in 1994; this and his volume of film/poems The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems and his feature film Prometheus are published by Faber and Faber. His most recent film/poem was Crossings (LWT), 2002. In 2007 his Collected Film Poetry was published by Faber and his Collected Poems by Penguin. His most recent play, Fram, premiered at the National Theatre in 2008
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