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Article: the ANGRY GENIUS; A curmudgeon who thinks the world is going down the drain, Harold Pinter yesterday became the first British playwright ever to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2005
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON
LET the champagne flow. Harold Pinter yesterday became the first British playwright ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Pinter, whose works include The Caretaker and The Birthday Party, has been a controversial figure in English literature for nearly 50 years.
While his once prodigious dramatic output - characterised by long pauses and a mixture of the brutal and the banal - has slowed recently, he has increasingly used his celebrity to highlight his political beliefs.
In his citation for the award, the Swedish Academy, which will hand him the [pounds sterling]687,000 prize in December, ...