Nobel honours Harold Pinter

AP: British playwright Harold Pinter won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

The Swedish Academy said Mr. Pinter’s plays uncover “the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.â€?

October 13, 2005 by Uncategorized 5

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  1. kmccook says:
    October 13, 2005 at 5:37 pm

    Pinter also won the Wilfred Owen Award
    Harold Pinter has also won the Wilfred Owen Prize for for poetry opposing the Iraq Conflict. Another
    Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney has been honored with the Wilfred Owen Award as well. Pinter has spoken out bravely against the war in Iraq: “Bush and company are determined, quite simply, to control the world and the world’s resources. And they don’t give a damn how many people they murder on the way. And Blair goes along with it.”

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  2. GregS* says:
    October 13, 2005 at 6:14 pm

    Re:Pinter also won the Wilfred Owen Award
    So what your saying is the Nobel Price for Literature has now become as politicized, and therefore as meaningless, as the Nobel Prize for Peace. Good to know.

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  3. Anonymous Patron says:
    October 13, 2005 at 10:36 pm

    Pinter also won the Wilfred Owen Award
    The Nobel committee does have a history of acknowledging writers who stand against power.

    Previous winners include Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, outspoken German writer Guenter Grass and Wole Soyinka, a caustic critic of Nigeria’s military regime.

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  4. birdie says:
    October 14, 2005 at 5:04 am

    On a completely different subject, another honoree
    and an apparent favorite of LISNewsterz, Angelina Jolie won the Global Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association. Here she is, complete with major cleavage, accepting the prize . Wonder if a less glamourous humanitarian was under consideration…?

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  5. GregS* says:
    October 17, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    follow-upRe:Pinter also won the Wilfred Owen Award
    OpinionJournal article here and interesting Corner comment here.

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