Carol Ann Duffy Awarded PEN Pinter Prize

Tuesday 21st May

Posted at 8:00AM Friday 13 Jul 2012

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to be awarded the 2012 Pen Pinter Prize.

The annual prize - in memory of the playwright Harold Pinter - is awarded to a British writer of outstanding literary merit.

Duffy, who will receive the award at the British Library on 8 October, said she was "hugely honoured and moved".

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