Art, Truth & Politics. By Harold Pinter
09 Dec 2005
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Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. In "Truth, Art & Politics," British playright Harold Pinter begins by discussing the creative writing process in relation to truth. Then, he examines the untruths of the US-UK imperial politics in relation to the Iraq war, and the long history of the US's foreign interventions since the end of WWII. Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
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