Nobel Prize in Literature

[Fifty]

So this Harold Pinter guy got the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature. A lot of people say it was mainly a political jesture towards America. I'm not really familiar with the guy, but from Wikipedia...

"Pinter opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He famously called President Bush a mass murderer and Blair a 'deluded idiot'. He frequently writes political letters to British newspapers. He has likened the Bush administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the U.S. was charging towards world domination while the American public and the United Kingdom's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched."

So do you think that there is any truth to the conjecture that his winning the prize was largely influenced by his political views? (a sort of anti-Bush jesture)

 

[DBear]

Duplicate thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=131312

 

[Fifty]

ya know I actually said to myself "i bet there is already a thread for this" and I sortof skimmed a couple pages but oh well!