Culture‘War lives in me’: Gaza playwright Ali Abu Yasin wins English PEN award
Gaza playwright Ali Abu Yasin has received English PEN’s Writer of Courage 2026 award for continuing to write amid the devastation. He said the prize was for Gaza, Palestine and all Palestinians as well as for him. After enduring bombardment, displacement and personal loss, he recently left Gaza with support from an artist residency programme in France.
‘War lives in me’: Gaza playwright Ali Abu Yasin wins English PEN award
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