Harold Pinter and the Nobel Literature Prize 2003-2009

The winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature between 2003 and 2009 unleashed language on art, truth, and politics. They were writers who bore witness to the mistakes of the Iraq War, the Vietnam War, the Second World War, colonialism, fascism, and communism.
2003 John Maxwell Coetzee (b. 1940) South Africa
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (b. 1946) Austria
2005 Harold Pinter (1930–2008) Britain
2006 Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) Türkiye
2007 Doris Lessing (1919–2013) Britain
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b. 1940) France
2009 Herta Müller (b. 1953) Romania (Germany)

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