"This noble winner should get the Peace Prize, too
Robert McCrum
Sunday October 15, 2006
The Observer
When Harold Pinter won the Nobel prize for literature last year it was a great day for British theatre but a lot of smart literary money went astray. It was not just that the punters were wrong-footed (everyone had been saying that Orhan Pamuk would be nominated), they also became suddenly nervous. Was the Swedish Academy once again shunning political controversy as it has so often preferred to do in the past?"
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