Biography
Harold Pinter (1930-2008), born in Hackney, London, was the defining British dramatist of the second half of the twentieth century and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pinter trained as an actor before turning to playwriting. His early plays—The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964)—established the Pinteresque style: menacing subtext, precise vernacular dialogue, pauses loaded with unspoken meaning. Later plays including Old Times (1971), No Man's Land (1975), Betrayal (1978, told in reverse chronology), and Celebration (1999) deepened his examination of memory, power, and the impossibility of real communication. Pinter was also a prolific screenwriter (The Servant, The French Lieutenant's Woman), poet, political activist, and outspoken critic of American foreign policy. He died in London in 2008 from cancer.
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