Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor (also known as David Baron), director, author, political activist and Nobel Laureate. The author of 29 plays and 26 screenplays spanning a career of over fifty years, he is best known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), and for his screenplay adaptations of novels by others, such as The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and The Trial (1993). Pinter has been recognized internationally for his widespread cultural and artistic influence and his achievements in multiple genres and media since the 1960s. In December 2005 Pinter received the Nobel Prize in Literature (in absentia, due to illness). In its citation, the Academy states that "Harold Pinter is generally regarded as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century". On 17 January 2007...
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