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.