Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize
British playwright Harold Pinter was hailed as “uniquely strong and inspiring” as he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
The 75-year-old playwright’s work was described as “seductively accessible and frighteningly mysterious” at the ceremony in Sweden.
He was unable to attend the event in Stockholm because he has been recovering from cancer of the oesophagus and his doctors did not let him travel.
But there was still rapturous applause for the man who has written a plethora of plays including The Room, The Birthday Party and The Caretaker.
A spokesman from the Academy said: “In its choice of a Nobel Laureate, the Swedish Academy recognises only the creative power of a single individual regardless of nation, sex and literary genre.
Source: Guardian Unlimited.
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