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TheEllipticalDisillusion
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct , 2005 1:36 am
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This year's prize goes to a brilliant playwright and my own personal favorite, Harold Pinter.

http://nobelprize.org/literature/laurea ... index.html

Is anyone a fan of Pinter's plays?

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Posted: Fri 14 Oct , 2005 4:14 am
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I have been squealing ever since I heard. Yay! :D
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I`m not familiar with Pinter`s work...this is the man who signed a petition to free Slobodan Milosevic, which leaves me to wonder....

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...he's also one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq war.


And whatever his personal beliefs are, his writing is absolutely brilliant.
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like I said, I`m not familiar with his writing.....no need to "defend" him, or list pros and cons....
I just said it makes me wonder.....why is one aggression ok, but the other one isn`t, in the mind of this particular Nobel Prize winner....

I wouldn`t say that one should view his writers` brilliance, as separate from his personal beliefs...Nobel Prize is as much about making a statement and politics as it is about awarding someone for doing extraordinary work in their respective field....

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His award is a long time coming. This man should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature years ago.

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