2007-9-13

Photo: British Writer Harold. Pinter

Sina Culture Dispatch, according to source of Reuters, Sweden Royal Literature Institution announced on Am 11,October 13, GMT (Pm 19, October 13, Beijing Time) that British playwriter Harold Pinter won Nobel Literature Prize in 2005.

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences£¨RSAS£©said in the award proclaim: The grounds for conferring Harold Pinter Nobel Literature Award lie in"his play's finding the heartquake under cover of daily nonsense and forcing to unlock the room where the oppressed was restricted. "

The perspective of Pinter is that: "the major task of a modern playwriter is not to mold a character; a playwriter has no right to probe into the inner part of characters of play, in order to impractically guide the audience to observe the external things through the eyes of the characters he molded. What the playwriter can presented with audience is only a kind of impression, which he has on the appearance and mode of certain scene and changeable things along with scenario, and a kind of mysterious feeling he has for this wonderful and changeable drama plot. " Pinter born on October 10, 1930, will acquire premium of SEK 10million (about Euro 1.10 million ).

In March, 2005, the contemporary great dramatist Harold Pinter announced that he would terminate his career of writing drama. Since then, he would dedicate to the political activities. In recent years, this 74 year-old dramatist has always earnestly joined the movement against British Prime Minister and Iraq War.

Pinter announced this decision when a British broadcasting station interviewed him in an evening program. He said: "I have written 29 dramas, I felt that's enough. "

Now, I have found a new living way to spend my energy. In the past several years, I ever gave several political speeches in different places, I will put more energy on political affairs in future. In my opinion, I think the reality is very concerned. "In last November, Pinter attended a political movement aiming to impeach British Prime Minister. He referred to the United States in the speech: 'Being controlled by a gang of criminals ,' while Tony. Blair is a Christian gangster employed by the criminals, and a 'war criminal' ."

Yet, to the comfort of the works lovers of Pinter, Pinter expressed that he would continue poet writing. In 2003, he ever published a poetry anthology with theme against Iraq war.

Harold Pinter was reputed by commentary circle as the most important dramatist after Bernard Shaw. He wrote more than 20 important drama in the past dozens of years, among which, Many works such as The Caretaker(1960), The Birthday Party(1958) and The Home coming(1965) etc represent the top achievements of western modern school drama. British reported that his retirement announcement would be a heavy strike on persons in playdom who were expecting for his next works.