Who has been selected for the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award?
Who has been selected for the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award?
[A]Christopher Hitchens
[B]Taslima Nasrin
[C]J K Rowling
[D]Salman Rushide
J K Rowling
The free-speech organization PEN American Center announced that it is giving its 2016 PEN/Allen award to author J.K. Rowling. Previous recipients of the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award include Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. PEN is also honouring Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch. Pietsch joined with several other publishers last year in an informal pledge to combat censorship of translated books in China.