- Salman Rushdie won Pen Pinter prize for his outstanding literary output and support for freedom of expression
- This award was started in 2009 in memory of British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter
- Salman Rushdie is not only a great writer but he sees writers unjustly vilified, prosecuted, or forced into exile, he takes a personal interest
- Salman said that he is moved to receive an award named after my friend Harold Pinter
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/rushdie-wins-pen-pinter-prize/article6135378.ece
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