![]() ![]() One of the group of seven leaders in the Bahá’í faith, known as the Yaran-i-Iran (‘Friends of Iran’), Sabet was detained in 2008 along with six others, for their religion and activities related to running the affairs of the community in Iran. The award was established in 2009, in tribute to the playwright Harold Pinter, and it is always shared with an International Writer of Courage, described as “a writer who is active in defence of freedom of expression, often at great risk to their own safety and liberty”. ![]() The PEN Pinter Prize, presented annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who casts an “unflinching, unswerving gaze upon the world” and shows a “fierce intellectual determination.to define the real truth of our lives and our societies”. On Tuesday evening (10th October) Belfast-based poet Longley named Sabet as the International Writer of Courage at the PEN Pinter Prize ceremony at the British Library in London. Sabet (pictured) was released last month after being imprisoned for almost a decade in Tehran. ![]() Iranian poet Mahvash Sabet has been announced as the 2017 International Writer of Courage and will share the PEN Pinter Prize with Irish writer Michael Longley. ![]()
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