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Friday, December 09, 2005

Nobel Lecture - Literature 2005

Michael Billington in his 1996 book published by Faber and Faber, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, said:
Pinter remains to his credit, a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of
accepted truths, both in life and art. In fact the two persistently
inter-act.

Harold Pinter has been awarded the the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. Pinter, in his Nobel Lecture to the Swedish Academy, makes the case for US brutality at international level since the second world war. In fact, Pinter says, America is on a permanent war footing. Read the speech in full here.