British playwright Tom Stoppard is ready to be honoured subsequent month by means of PEN The usa, the literary and human rights organisation.
PEN introduced that Stoppard will obtain the 25,000 US bucks (£19,000) PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Efficiency Award for Leopoldstadt, a brand new paintings set within the Jewish quarter of early 20th century Vienna that the 82-year-old has mentioned is also his ultimate play.
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The Nichols prize, established ultimate yr and named after the past due movie and degree director, used to be up to now given to the playwright-filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan.
Canadian poet and fiction creator M NourbeSe Philip, whose books come with the poetry collections Thorns and Salmon Braveness – and the unconventional On the lookout for Livingstone, has received the PEN/Nabokov Award for world literature.
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Others given the Nabokov award come with Edna O’Brien and Philip Roth.
PEN will provide the awards March 2 at The town Corridor in New york, with Seth Meyers serving as host.
Others receiving prizes will probably be The Name playwright Tanya Barfield, who will probably be given the PEN/Laura Pels World Basis for Theatre Award, and Rigoberto Gonzalez, winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
Gonzalez’s poetry books come with Different Fugitives and Different Strangers and Black Blossoms.
