{"id":10818,"date":"2020-07-14T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:35:15","slug":"lkj-wins-pen-pinter-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/14\/lkj-wins-pen-pinter-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"LKJ Wins PEN Pinter Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from Brixton Blog<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brixtonblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Linton-Kwesi-Johnson_CROP_1200px-1024x853.jpg\" alt=\"Linton Kwesi Johnson\" class=\"wp-image-65424\"\/><figcaption><em>Linton Kwesi Johnson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year\u2019s&nbsp;PEN Pinter Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judges praised his work, saying: \u201cFew post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political expression in their work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local poet and reggae artist will receive the award in a digital ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on 12 October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize was established in 2009 by the charity\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/prizes\/pen-pinter-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">English PEN<\/a>, which defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature, in memory of the Nobel Laureate playwright Harold Pinter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/brixtonblog.com\/2020\/07\/top-literature-prize-for-linton-kwesi-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Brixton Blog<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Brixton Blog Top literature prize for Linton Kwesi Johnson Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year\u2019s&nbsp;PEN Pinter Prize. Judges praised his work, saying: \u201cFew post-war figures have been as unwaveringly committed to political expression in their work.\u201d The local poet and reggae artist will receive the award in a digital ceremony co-hosted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}