Harold Pinter - Nobel Prize for Literature 2005

Well, it wasn't Adonis, Pamuk, Oates or Oz. The 2005 Nobel for literature goes to professional America-hater and sometime playwright Harold Pinter.


Part of me is happy that another Yid has taken literature's most prestigious award, but I can think of a number of more deserving writers who continue to put out great work. Oh, well, at least he isn't as nutty as last year's doozy of a laureate, Elfriede Jelinek. I may actually take the opportunity to read a couple of his plays. His poems, which are "poems" in name only, I'll give a miss.

Yom Kippur

It's that time of year again. To the whole Jew Crew, tzom kal, go well over the fast.

and the winnah is...

Veteran Irish author John Banville (so Ish wasn't the only one after all) has won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for his novel , The Sea. I just picked up a copy and look forward to reading it after the exam period.

Al-Guardian has more: Irish stylist springs Booker surprise

RIP Ronnie Barker (1929 - 2005)

"...and it's goodnight from him!"