Tom Stoppard, the playwright who has so often explored the nature of freedom in his work, is to be awarded the 2013 PEN/Pinter prize.Established in 2009 in memory of Nobel-laureate Harold Pinter, the prize is awarded annually to a British writer, or writer resident in Britain, of outstanding literary merit who - to quote Pinter - casts an "unflinching, unswerving" gaze upon the world and shows a "fierce intellectual …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25AM on July 31, 2013