2005 Nobel Prize in Literature

2005 Nobel Prize in Literature
Harold Pinter
"who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."
Date
  • 13 October 2005 (2005-10-13) (announcement)
  • 10 December 2005
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008) "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."[1] He is the 11th British writer to become a recipient of the prize after William Golding in 1983 and was followed later by Doris Lessing in 2007 and Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017.

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 nobelprize.org