Hanif Kureishi bags Pinter literary prize

Renowned novelist Hanif Qureshi has bagged a literary prize set up in honour of playwright Harold Pinter.

The Buddha of Suburbia author won the Pen/Pinter prize as he courageously speaks the truth about life in our multicultural world and will receive a cash reward of 1000 pounds during a felicitation ceremony at British Library.

"Hanif Kureishi courageously and irreverently speaks the truth about life in our multicultural world, beyond any platitudes of political correctness. Harold Pinter would have been proud that Hanif was chosen for the prize in his name and that of Pen," the BBC quoted Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter’s widow as saying.

The Pen/Pinter prize is given to a British writer who, in the words of Pinter's Nobel Prize winning speech, casts an unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world.

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