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(1)This has been quite a week for literary coups. In an almost entirely unexpected move, the Swedish Academy have this lunchtime
(1)This has been quite a week for literary coups. In an almost entirely unexpected move, the Swedish Academy have this lunchtime
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2019-01-22
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(1)This has been quite a week for literary coups. In an almost entirely unexpected move, the Swedish Academy have this lunchtime announced their decision to award this year’s Nobel prize for Literature to the British playwright, author and recent poet, Harold Pinter and not, as was widely anticipated, to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk or the Syrian poet Adonis.
(2)The Academy, which has handed out the prize since 1901, described Pinter, whose works include The Birthday Party, The Dumb Waiter and his breakthrough The Caretaker, as someone who restored the art form of theatre. In its citation, the Academy said Pinter was "generally seen as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th. century, "and declared him to be an author "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms."
(3)Until today’s announcement, Pinter was barely thought to be in the running for the prize, one of the most prestigious and lucrative in the world. After Pamuk and Adonis, the writers believed to be under consideration by the Academy included Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth, and the Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer, with Margaret Atwood, Milan Kundera and the South Korean poet Ko Un as long-range possibilities. Following on from last year’s surprise decision to name the Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Elfriede Jelinek as laureate, however, the secretive Academy has once again confounded the bookies.
(4)Pinter’s victory means that the prize has been given to a British writer for the second time in under five years; it was awarded to VS Naipaul in 2001. European writers have won the prize in nine out of the last 10 years so it was widely assumed that this year’s award would go to a writer from a different continent.
(5)The son of immigrant Jewish parents, Pinter was born in Hackney, London on October 10, 1930. He himself has said that his youthful encounters with anti-semitism led him to become a dramatist. Without doubt one of Britain’s greatest post-war playwrights, his long association with the theatre began when he worked as an actor, under the stage name David Baron. His first play, The Room, was performed at Bristol University in 1957; but it was in 1960 with his second full-length play, the absurdist masterpiece The Caretaker, that his reputation was established. Known for their menacing pauses, his dark, claustrophobic plays are notorious for their mesmerising ability to strip back the layers of the often banal lives of their characters to reveal the guilt and horror that lie beneath, a feature of his writing which has garnered him the adjective "Pinteresque." He has also written extensively for the cinema: his screenplays include The Servant (1963), and The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981).
(6)Pinter’s authorial stance, always radical, has become more and more political in recent years. An outspoken critic of the war in Iraq (he famously called President Bush a "mass murderer" and dubbed Tony Blair a "deluded idiot"), in 2003 he turned to poetry to castigate the leaders of the US and the UK for their decision to go to war (his collection, War, was awarded the Wilfred Owen award for poetry). Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry, declaring on BBC Radio 4 that. "I think I’ve stopped writing plays now, but I haven’t stopped writing poems. I’ve written 29 plays. Isn’t that enough?"
(7)In 2002, Pinter was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus and underwent a course of chemotherapy, which he described as a "personal nightmare". "I’ve been through the valley of the shadow of death," he said afterwards. "While in many respects I have certain characteristics that I had, I’m also a very changed man." Earlier this week it was announced that he is to act in a production of Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the English Stage Company at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
(8)Horace Engdahl, the Academy’s permanent secretary, said that Pinter was overwhelmed when told he had won the prize. "He did not say many words," he said. "He was very happy."
_____was not anticipated as the Nobel prize winner, but announced as laureate finally.
选项
A、Elfriede Jelinek
B、Orhan Pamuk
C、Adonis
D、Joyce Carol
答案
A
解析
第3段最后一句提到Elfriede Jelinek在去年爆冷门获得了诺贝尔奖金,由此答案选A。
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