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Playwright Harold Pinter buried in London

Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter was buried at a London cemetery Wednesday in a small private funeral attended by family and close friends.

Broadway lights to be dimmed for Harold Pinter

The marquees of Broadway theaters will be dimmed in honor of playwright Harold Pinter.

Harold Pinter: A master of the sound of silence

No one made the sound of silence more ominously theatrical than Harold Pinter.

Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78

British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter — who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq — has died, his widow said Thursday. He was 78.

Pinter Dissects a Combative Family

Just in time for the holidays comes another bilious family reunion: a revival of "The Homecoming," Harold Pinter's masterful, acid-etched portrait of a tyrannical father and his three sons, undone by a savvy, sexually aware woman.

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Harold Pinter directs his own funeral
Source: 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 Pinter
Source: 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 and Eartha Kitt, artists and opponents of imperialist war
Source: WSWS

British playwright Harold Pinter died Wednesday at the age of 78, and American singer and actress Eartha Kitt died Thursday, Christmas day, at 81.

Vale anti-war hero, Jewish British Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter 1930-2008
Source: International Herald Tribune

Obituary for outstanding Jewish British playwright Harold Pinter, Literature Nobel laureate and outspoken anti-war humanitarian in the cause of Palestinians, Iraqis and other victims of US, Zionist, Anglo violence.

Harold Pinter, master of realism, dies aged 78
Source: Independent.co.uk

The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter has died, his second wife confirmed today. Pinter, 78, who had been suffering from cancer, died yesterday on Christmas Eve.

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.

Free Harold Pinter Tix in Tokyo

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 honour
Source: 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.

Krapp's Last Tape … Pinter's last triumph
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

The old man rose painfully as the performance ended. The applause built slowly from a single clap of hands to a tumult.

I'm written out, says controversial Pinter
Source: 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. Click to learn more...

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