{"id":3628,"date":"2013-10-10T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:10","slug":"the-prize-you-should-be-paying-attention-to-today-pen-pinter-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/10\/the-prize-you-should-be-paying-attention-to-today-pen-pinter-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The prize you should be paying attention to today: PEN Pinter Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/the-prize-you-should-be-paying-attention-to-today\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1318501327_260712_28.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;[T]he prize awarded this week that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really worth paying attention to is the <strong>PEN Pinter Prize<\/strong>, given annually to both a British writer and an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153international writer of courage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recipients are <strong>Tom Stoppard <\/strong>and the Belarusian journalist<strong> Irina Khalip<\/strong>, who writes for <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em> and has consistently covered election fraud, human rights abuses, and the activities of the Belarusian security services, the KGB (not <em>that<\/em> KGB, but the successor to the same).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Khalip received the PEN Pinter award&#8230;on a significant date: October 7, the anniversary of the murder of the Russian journalist <strong>Anna Politkovskaya<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/books\/is-journalism-worth-dying-for\/\"><em>Is Journalism Worth Dying For?<\/em> <\/a>and, like Khalip, a reporter for <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>. Khalip paid a low-key but moving tribute to her in her acceptance speech, saying: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have to start my short speech with the name of Anna Politkovskaya\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Seven years ago this day she was killed. She was a courageous journalist, a person who cared and my colleague.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/the-prize-you-should-be-paying-attention-to-today\/\">The prize you should be paying attention to today | MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prize awarded this week (the week of the Nobel Prize in Literature) that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really worth paying attention to is the PEN Pinter Prize, given annually to both a British writer and an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153international writer of courage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recipients are Tom Stoppard and the Belarusian journalist Irina Khalip, who writes for Novaya Gazeta and has consistently covered election fraud, human rights abuses, and the activities of the Belarusian security services, the KGB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[765,842,505,840,841,843],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-765","tag-irina-khalip","tag-pen","tag-pinter-prize","tag-tom-stoppard","tag-writer-of-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}