Relevant to WoT because of Pinter's anti-war "poetry". He won the Prize for his plays, however. I hope. EFL.
Harold Pinter, the British playwright, said today that his longstanding political activism may have played a role in the decision to award him the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
His face cut and bruised after a recent fall and carrying a cane for support, Pinter added: "I think the world has had enough of my plays by now. But I think I shall certainly be writing more poetry and certainly remain deeply engaged in the question of political structures in this world."
Read the whole thing. Laugh lines galore. Here is Pinter's official site, which contains Pinter's famous 2003 poem, "God Bless America", featuring the deathless lines Your eyes have gone out and your nose/Sniffs only the pong of the dead... Good news for satirists the world over. |