The Nobel Prize for Literature goes to recent birthday boy (75 last Monday!) Harold Pinter (left), not a bad Yom Kippur present for the son of immigrant Jewish parents. (As the Guardian notes, his decision to pursue writing was shaped in response to the anti-semitism he faced in youth.) The AP offers a helpful backgrounder on the laureate whose name hadn’t even been bandied about when pundits were speculating on whether the week-long delay in naming a winner was because of a debate over the merits of Orhan Pamuk…or Joyce Carol Oates or Philip Roth.
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