The author and poet is described by judges as 'one of our most tenacious and fearless writers'.
Rosen joins past winners including Malorie Blackman, Lemn Sissay, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie
The award is for writers of "outstanding literary merit" who take an "unflinching" look at the world. English PEN chair Ruth Borthwick called the ex-children's laureate "one of our most tenacious and fearless writers"."In over 140 books, he has championed a way of writing for children which reflects their everyday worlds, using humour and wordplay to validate their imaginative ways of thinking and being, and which has informed his succinct interventions into the lifeless way that children are taught literacy in schools.
The prize was set up in memory of Nobel laureate playwright Harold Pinter in 2009 by English PEN, a charity that says it defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature.
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