“Dead Wrong History” that was corrected by Harold Pinter, in his 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech
September 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
The Nobel Prize in Literature is usually accepted graciously. Writers thank their editors. They read a passage from their work. They talk about their background that had inspired them. Instead of this, Pinter titled his speech “Art, Truth & Politics” and he spoke about the truths that the U.S. imperial regime and its prestigious paid and/or suckered ‘authoritative’ agents in the media, universities, and think tanks excuse or even ignore. He told what isn’t being told to children while they are growing up, nor by the ‘history’ books and ‘news’-media when they are adults.
Pinter said, in this 46-minute-long, 7 December 2005, speech: