♦ Arundhati Roy was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 on 27 June 2024. This annual award was set up in 2009 by English PEN in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter. Roy will receive the award in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on October 10.

♦ The prize is awarded annually to a writer of outstanding literary merit resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth.

♦ Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things.