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Pinter to skip ceremony

STOCKHOLM: Harold Pinter, who won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, will not attend next month's award ceremony in Stockholm for health reasons, the Nobel Foundation said on Wednesday. British playwright and poet's publisher Stephen Page will accept the prestigious prize on Mr. Pinter's behalf during the December 10 ceremony, the foundation said. But Mr. Pinter, who has been treated for cancer in recent years, will come to the Swedish capital before the award ceremony to deliver a traditional lecture to the Swedish Academy on December 7. Mr. Pinter (75) looked frail when he spoke to the media after winning the Nobel Prize in October. Later the same month, he was awarded the Czech Republic's Franz Kafka literary prize but did not attend because of poor health. Mr. Pinter's works include plays such as ``The Caretaker,'' ``The Room,'' and ``The Birthday Party.'' In the prize citation, the Swedish Academy said he ``restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles.'' In 2002, he revealed he was undergoing treatment for throat cancer. — AP

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