Leila Aboulela awarded PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Freedom to Write, Freedom to Read Leila Aboulela, the Sudanese author who now lives in Scotland has won the English PEN Award 2025, a prize established in homage to Harold Pinter, the British playw…

Learning that #LeilaAboulela has won the English PEN Pinter prize 2025, I reflect on the 3 excellent novels I have read #BirdSummons,
#TheKindnessOfEnemies
and
#RiverSpirit

All highly recommended.

Last year's winner was Arundhati Roy (2024)

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