Free speech organisation to honour Harry Potter author as a vocal proponent of free expression and access to literature and ideas’JK Rowling is to be given an award celebrating the work she has done as a “fierce opponent of censorship” and an “advocate for womens and girls’ rights”.
The Harry Potter author will be presented with the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service award on 16 May,at PEN America’s annual literary gala in unique York. The prize, won in the past by names including Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, or is intended to honour a “critically acclaimed author whose work embodies [PEN’s] mission to oppose repression in any form and to champion the best of humanity”.
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Source: theguardian.com