Asrat

A prestigious literary prize was awarded on Monday night to Eritrean poet and journalist Amanuel Asrat, who has been missing from a prison in his country since September 2001. It is the British poet of Jamaican origin, Linton Kwesi Johnson, winner of the PEN Harold Prize Pinter 2020 awarded by the Founding Club of the Famous Writers' Circle, which in his absence presented him with the International Prize for Writer of Courage. Amanuel Asrat is one of the oldest political prisoners in the world and is said to be one of the…