Jewish playwright Tom Stoppard has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious accolades.
The prize is given annually in memory of the Nobel-winning Jewish playwright Harold Pinter to an outstanding British writer.
It seeks to reward outstanding British writers who show, in the words of Pinter, "a fierce intellectual determination...to define the real truth of our lives and our societies."
Mr Stoppard will be presented with the prize at a public ceremony at the British Library in London in October.
