Harold Pinter & The Prize of Nobel

Watched the Nobel Lecture of the playwright Harold Pinter on More4 last night - a brutal, coruscating speech which started with him giving unusual insights into his writing, then making a witheringly detailed attack on recent British-American foreign policy and closing with a quote from Pablo Neruda that pretty much explained his reasons for delivering such an address;
"why doesn't his poetry speak of dreams and leaves
and the great volcanoes of his native land?
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see.
The blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood.
In the streets!"

Watch and read the lecture at Nobelprize.org.

Guardian article: "Shades of Beckett..."

Full text of Pablo Neruda's "I'm Explaining A Few Things."
Neruda also won the Nobel Prize in Literature, back in 1971. You can read his speech, here.