Pinter's Nobel homecoming
THE Nobel Prize for literature normally goes to novelists, but playwrights have also been recipients.
Yet the Academy can be congratulated on its choice. Though his later plays have proved less successful with the public, Pinter's earlier work in the Fifties and Sixties - The Birthday Party, The Homecoming and The Caretaker - has long been recognised as a seminal contribution to drama in the 20th century. It stands comparison with that of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller, who never did win the Nobel Prize.
Latterly, Pinter (always a conscientious objector) has been better known for his opposition to the Iraq war, although a collaboration with the composer James Clarke was broadcast this week.
His elevation to the pantheon of literary greats is now complete.
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