A play about Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted by a military judge last week for passing classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, won a newly created drama prize at Britain's oldest literary awards.
Welsh playwright Tim Price's The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning became the first winner of the £10,000 (HK$119,200) James Tait Black Prize for Drama at an awards ceremony held in Edinburgh.
The play tracks the US-born Manning's journey from his teenage years in a Welsh village through his life as a US soldier and subsequent arrest in 2010 for passing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
"I am thrilled to be recognised by such a prestigious award, and honoured to be chosen as winner from such a fantastic shortlist of plays" Price said.
Manning's Welsh mother had seen the play and mailed the script to her son, Price said. Some of the prize money will go to Manning's defence fund.