Harold Pinter, Nobel-winning Playwright [And Now He's Dead]

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Pinter was known for plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker—and later in his career as a salon leftist with a reflexive and increasingly dated hostility to the United States.
The British writer—born of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe—died after a six-year bout of cancer, at the age of 78.
It was never entirely clear how much the Nobel prize for literature awarded in 2005 represented recognition of his contribution as a dramatist, sympathy for the playwright's long illness—or merely a collective rebuke by Europe's liberal intellectual establishment of the Bush administration's foreign policy of which Pinter was so noted a critic.
For a reverential analysis of Pinter's works, read the obituary in today's [I]New York Times[/I]. For Pinter's own rather confused explanation of his political views, embedded here is a recent interview with Charlie Rose.


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