Below are extracts from the speech Harold Pinter gave in 2005 on the occasion of the acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A warning to all of us, as people and as citizens. Because today more than ever we have the duty keep a critical minds and awareness alive, and never cease to search
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Harold Pinter in Turin
“He moved us with his cutting words, he made us smile and he made us laugh, his political analyses punched us straight in the gut taking no short cuts.” This is what journalist Sara Strippoli wrote about Harold Pinter in the “la Repubblica” newspaper on March 13th 2006. Pinter had just been awarded the Nobel
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Pinter and mountain language
An open supporter of civil rights, always on the side of the oppressed and a strenuous defender of human rights, in 1985 Pinter set out on a mission in Turkey with the famous director and playwright Arthur Miller.
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The remains of Pinter
It was all the news a few days ago. British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
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The Return of the Handmaid… Remembering Pinter’s adaptation
In 1990 Pinter adapted Canadian writer Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985) known in Italy as “Il racconto dell’ancella”.
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Harold and Arthur thrown out of the USA embassy in Turkey
‘Art, Truth and Politics’ was the title of the speech given by Pinter at the Nobel Prize for Literature reception ceremony in 2005.
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