November 11, 2005

Pinter's Plays, Pinter's Politics

By JAY PARINI

In the weeks that have passed since Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature, there has been incessant chatter on both sides of the Atlantic, some of it unflattering. Did the 75-year-old British playwright, whose latest plays have been less than well received, really deserve the award? Was he given the most prestigious literary prize in the world (worth $1.3-million) for political reasons? The columnist Christopher Hitchens pulled no punches in his widely circulated response: "The

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