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Pinter wins Nobel literary prize
Controversial British playwright and campaigner Harold Pinter has won
the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature.
Pinter, 75, whose plays include The Birthday Party and Betrayal, was
announced as the winner of the $1.3m (￡723,000) cash prize on Thursday.
The Nobel academy said Pinter's work "uncovers the precipice under
everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
The playwright is known for speaking out on issues like the war on Iraq.
He is the first British winner since VS Naipaul in 2001.
Pinter, widely regarded as the UK's greatest living playwright, is
well-known for his left-wing political views.
A critic of US and UK foreign policy, he has voiced opposition on a
number of issues including the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001.
The prize announcement was made by Nobel permanent secretary Horace
Engdahl in Stockholm.
The academy's citation said: "Pinter restored theatre to its basic
elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people
are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles."
His spare style, full of threatening silences, has given rise to the
adjective "Pinteresque".
Vocal critic
The author of more than 30 plays, Pinter also writes prose.
His screenplays for film and television, include the 1981 movie The
French Lieutenant's Woman based on John Fowles' novel.
The Londoner, the son of a Jewish tailor, is also known for campaigning
for human rights.
Pinter, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, was a vocal critic
of the policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
He was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 but still voiced opposition to war
on Iraq, joining other artists such as Blur and Ken Loach in sending a
letter to Downing Street.
Earlier this year he said he was giving up writing plays to focus on
other forms of writing, including his poetry.
"I'm using a lot of energy more specifically about political states of
affairs, which I think are very worrying as things stand," he said.
Last year he received the Wilfred Owen award for poetry for a collection
of work criticising the war in Iraq.
Early experiences
"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'," he said
in a speech in March.
During his youth Pinter experienced anti-Semitism, which he said had
been important in his decision to become a dramatist.
He was fined for being a conscientious objector in 1949 after refusing
to do National Service.
He began a course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) but left
after two terms.
After a spell touring Ireland in a repertory company, Pinter made his
playwrighting debut in 1957 with The Room.
Other early successes included The Birthday Party in 1958, The Caretaker
in 1959 and The Homecoming in 1964.
His most recent play, Remembrance Of Things Past, was published in 2000,
and performed at London's National Theatre.
In winning the Nobel prize, he joins a list of winners including Samuel
Beckett, John Steinbeck, Sir Winston Churchill and TS Eliot.
Frenchman Jean-Paul Sartre won the award in 1964 but declined it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4338082.stm
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