Pinter - Nobel Laureate 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
Putting the Booker Prize in well-deserved shadow was yesterday's Nobel Literature Laureate announcement. The award to Pinter is a further kick in the teeth - after the Peace Prize award to the IEAE and Mohamed ElBaradei - to Bush, his shrubs, and his British poodle.
Pinter personifies what used to be called the engaged writer, a species that appears increasingly endangered, as writers these days are more likely to appear in the lifestyle sections than to pen editorials. On the front page of this morning's Independent (one of the few papers to find Pinter's award more newsworthy than the dangers of avian flu, incidentally) he writes:
Pinter personifies what used to be called the engaged writer, a species that appears increasingly endangered, as writers these days are more likely to appear in the lifestyle sections than to pen editorials. On the front page of this morning's Independent (one of the few papers to find Pinter's award more newsworthy than the dangers of avian flu, incidentally) he writes:
We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery and degradation to the Iraqi people and call it "bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East"....What we have unleashed is a ferocious and unremitting resistance, mayhem and chaos.
