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Earth to Stockholm ...(Harold Pinter, Nobel Literary Prize)
Quoth Harold Pinter: "I have no idea why they gave me the award." The award, of course, was the Nobel Prize for ... well, supposedly for literature. In the case of Harold Pinter, however, literature had nothing do with the prize. How could it? By our reckoning, Pinter has done nothing notable in that direction since The Caretaker 0959). Even at his early best (The Birthday Party, say, or The Dumb Waiter, both 1957), Pinter's was always a small and highly derivative literary gift--more of a handout, really. Indeed, we would suggest that his talent was not so much literary as histrionic, one of literature's degeneracies. What Pinter dispensed was a certain tone--an atmospherics of menace, borrowed largely…
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- Magazine article from: National Review Pryce-Jones, David November 7, 2005 700+ words
THE award of the Nobel Prize for Literature is one of the year...extended the entertainment by picking Harold Pinter. Some fifty years ago, he began...tiresome mystification, writing, "Harold Pinter is a man of few words, most of...
- British playwright Harold Pinter wins 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 13, 2005 700+ words
...Worldstream) Byline: MATT MOORE British playwright and poet Harold Pinter, whose juxtaposition of the brutal and the banal resulted in an adjective that bears his name, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy, awarding...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 14, 2005 700+ words
(From Western Daily Press) An "overwhelmed" Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday and then promptly announced he was giving up playwrighting. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy...
- Acerbic and biting, Briton Harold Pinter wins 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 14, 2005 700+ words
...Worldstream) Byline: MATT MOORE British playwright and poet Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such plays as...out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy, in awarding the prize...
- Acerbic and biting in his poetry and plays, Briton Harold Pinter wins 2005...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 13, 2005 700+ words
...Worldstream) Byline: MATT MOORE British playwright and poet Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such plays as...out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy, in awarding...
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- Magazine article from: Spectator Liddle, Rod October 22, 2005 700+ words
...Watch your back. Harold Pinter, February 2003...novelist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature...wing and the Nobel Prize people were...prize to our own Harold Pinter, probably the...no doubt that Harold Pinter has been by some...therefore the Nobel ...
- Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books October 13, 2005 700+ words
...COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Swedish Academy announced on Thursday (13 October) that the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to British playwright Harold Pinter. The announcement came as a shock to many as Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was the...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 13, 2005 700+ words
(From ONASA News Agency) STOCKHOLM, Oct 13 (ONASA) - British playwright Harold Pinter has won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 75-year-old beat Syrian poet Adonis and Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, to take the top literary honour of...
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- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Cox, Gordon October 14, 2005 700+ words
British playwright Harold Pinter won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Swedish Academy said that the scribe "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry...
- Splenetic British playwright Harold Pinter, master of the pause, wins Nobel...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 13, 2005 700+ words
(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JILL LAWLESS Harold Pinter is the most influential British playwright of his generation, a writer whose sparse signature style spawned its own adjective...
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