British children’s writer and performance poet Michael Rosen has been awarded the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize 2023.
- Known for beloved children’s books like We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, Rosen has also tackled subjects like migration and the Holocaust for young readers.
- The prize was set up in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter in 2009 by English PEN, a charity that says it defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature.
- The PEN Pinter Prize is given to a writer from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth whose work is committed to a fearless exposition of truth about contemporary life.
