The PEN Pinter Prize 2022: Malorie Blackman

The annual award for freedom of expression in literature.

Former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman is awarded the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize for 2022, the first children’s and YA writer to receive it. At this event she delivers her keynote address at a ceremony hosted by British Library and English PEN.
The PEN Pinter Prize was established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, which defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature, in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter. The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize in Literature speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.
The event will be followed by a book signing.
Malorie Blackman has written over 70 books for children and young adults, including the Noughts and Crosses series of novels (which won the Red House FCBG Children’s Book Award as well as being included in the top 100 of the BBC Big Read), Cloud Busting (winner of the Smarties Silver Award), Thief (winner of the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award) and Hacker (winner of the WH Smiths Children's Book Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award for best children's book of the year). Her latest book is Endgame, the final novel of the Noughts and Crosses series.