ART, TRUTH, AND POLITICS BY HAROLD PINTER (2005): TRANSLATION OF A CULTURALLY RELEVANT TEXT

Abstract

The British dramatist Harold Pinter (d. 2008) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. The present contribution makes available to Spanish-speaking readers the discourse that Harold Pinter recorded for his acceptance speech in absentia to the Swedish Academy on December 7, 2005, on the occasion of the Nobel Prize award ceremony. The original English text is available at the Nobel Prize website, together with the French, Swedish and German translations. There is no Spanish translation included on the website and none has been printed since, which is why it seems advisable to publish the present translation. Pinter's discourse is an important text which should be available to Spanish-speaking readers, due to the interest of the ideas it contains, and also because of the courage shown by the dramatist in giving them a public expression.