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How low can they go? II: Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.(THE WORLD II)(Nobel committee of 18 Swedes )
THE award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the year's more amusing moments, in its way a little gloss on the age. A committee of 18 Swedes is responsible for it, and they all have membership in perpetuity. Publishers, translators, and other lobbyists swarm around them, and their final choice almost invariably depends on politicking rather than literary appreciation. Plucked from obscurity, recent winners like Elfriede Jelinek, Jose Saramago, and Dario Fo reveal the anxiety of those 18 Swedes to be in what they think is the fashionable swim. And this year they have extended the entertainment by picking Harold Pinter.
Some fifty years ago, he began ...
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