Ugandan journalist and novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who was imprisoned and tortured by security agents for his book The Greedy Barbarian, has won the 2021 International Writer of Courage award.
Rukirabashaija was chosen by Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, award-winning and this year’s PEN Pinter Prize winner novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist. The International Writer of Courage award is part of the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize, awarded to an author deemed to have fulfilled Harold Pinter’s aspiration to “define the real truth of our lives and our societies.”
