Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nKey-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
‘The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj’ beat six other titles for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2020, awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
English PEN, which stands for Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists, is one of the world’s oldest human rights organisations championing the freedom to write and read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s and on her death in 1999, she bequeathed 100,000 pounds to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entries are required to be works of high literary merit – that is, not primarily written for the academic market – and can cover all historical periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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