Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga wins PEN Pinter prize

Author, who was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption, is hailed by judges as a voice of hope we all need to hear'

Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer who was arrested last year in Harare while protesting against corruption, has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize, praised for her ability to capture and communicate vital truths even amidst times of upheaval".

The prize is given by free speech campaigners English PEN in memory of the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. It goes to a writer of outstanding literary merit" who, as Pinter put it in his Nobel speech, shows a fierce intellectual determination ... to define the real truth of our lives and our societies". Previous winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood and Linton Kwesi Johnson.