Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard has been awarded a major freedom-of-speech prize for his determination to "tell things as they are," writers' organization PEN said Wednesday.
The PEN/Pinter prize was established in 2009 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter. It goes to a British writer seen as sharing Pinter's "unflinching, unswerving" gaze on society. Each year that winner and PEN then choose a "writer of courage" who has faced persecution in his or her homeland to share the prize.
Stoppard, who scripted Oscar-winner Shakespeare in Love, is the author of plays including Arcadia and The Real Thing.
Gillian Slovo, who chaired the five-judge panel, said in a statement that the judges unanimously agreed that Stoppard's work fulfilled Pinter's description of the characteristics he most admired in a writer — "courage and truthfulness, a determination to tell things as they are."
Pinter's widow, Antonia Fraser, said her husband had admired Stoppard's works and "bold stance on public issues of all sorts."
Stoppard said that Pinter was one of the reasons he had wanted to write plays and had been a model for "fearless integrity."
"Most of us had occasion to feel humbled by his example," Stoppard said in a statement.
The co-winner will be announced at a ceremony at the British Library on Oct. 7, when Stoppard accepts his award.
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