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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was an English playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, poet and political activist, widely regarded as one of the most influential British dramatists of the twentieth century. His plays, including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming and Betrayal, are marked by pauses, ambiguity and an undercurrent of menace, a style that entered the language as "Pinteresque." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.