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Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was dying of cancer and gravely ill at the time of the Nobel Prize Ceremony and could not attend. However, he delivered his [[Document:Harold Pinter - 2005 Nobel Prize lecture|lecture]] via video link and it is a '''must read''' tour-de-force on the evils of American Foreign Policy through the latter part of the 20th Century to the invasion of Iraq. | Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was dying of cancer and gravely ill at the time of the Nobel Prize Ceremony and could not attend. However, he delivered his [[Document:Harold Pinter - 2005 Nobel Prize lecture|lecture]] via video link and it is a '''must read''' tour-de-force on the evils of American Foreign Policy through the latter part of the 20th Century to the invasion of Iraq. | ||
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Revision as of 16:27, 22 August 2013
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was dying of cancer and gravely ill at the time of the Nobel Prize Ceremony and could not attend. However, he delivered his lecture via video link and it is a must read tour-de-force on the evils of American Foreign Policy through the latter part of the 20th Century to the invasion of Iraq.
Pinter's insights into the world of Deep Politics were acute.
Internal Links
- 2005 Nobel Prize lecture
- File:Harold Pinter Nobel Prize address 2005.pdf - The 2005 Nobel Prize lecture in .pdf format
