Harold Pinter directs his own funeralSource: Telegraph
His plays were masterpieces of artistic control. And even at his own funeral Harold Pinter made sure he exterted a director's influence.
Times obituary: Harold PinterSource: The Times
Among contemporary dramatists Harold Pinter holds a unique place. Few, if any, have so lastingly and so profoundly influenced fellow playwrights — not just in this country but also beyond. And none has been so garlanded with high honours.
Harold Pinter, Nobel-Winning Playwright, Dies at 78 Source: The New York Times
Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London.

Should any Newsviner be interested, Tokyo's fantastic Black Stripe Theater is putting on Nobel laureate Harold Pinter's The Homecoming this weekend - July 4th, 5th, and 6th, in Azabu-Juban.
Demolition Man: Harold Pinter and "The Homecoming"Source: New Yorker
On a grisly London evening last October, as the Victorian street lamps of Holland Park were flickering in the twilight, I arrived too early for an appointment at Harold Pinter's handsome town house.
Harold Pinter receives top French honourSource: Guardian Unlimited
British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, whose works include The Birthday Party and The Homecoming, was yesterday awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French prime minister, Dominic de Villepin.
Do as I say, not as I do Source: Australian News Network
THE directorial debut of Cate Blanchett at the Sydney Theatre Company today will come under intense scrutiny. It's probably a wise move for the Oscar winner and very tall poppy to start with a small, albeit perfectly formed, Harold Pinter play.
I'm written out, says controversial PinterSource: Scotsman.com News
PLAYWRIGHT Harold Pinter revealed yesterday that he has given up writing altogether.
The writer was speaking at the Edinburgh Book Festival for his first major public event in Britain since winning the Nobel Prize for literature last year.
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