Stoppard awarded PEN Pinter Prize

       They've announced that Tom Stoppard will be awarded this year's PEN Pinter Prize.
       As they explain:

The Prize is awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Harold Pinter's Nobel 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'.

       English PEN's Writers at Risk Committee, in association with Stoppard, will now also select: "an international writer of courage" with whom he will share the prize when they receive it on 7 October.
       (No word yet at the official site, last I checked, but see, for example, Tom Stoppard wins PEN/Pinter prize by Rozina Sabur in The Telegraph.)