Harold Pinter’s demise ends an era

One of the most famous British playwright ever and Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter, has died. He was 78 and suffering from cancer.

Harold was extremely talented and was CH, CBE, Nobel Laureate, playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, political activist, and president of the Central School of Speech and Drama.

During a writing career spanning over half a century, beginning with his first play, The Room (1957), Pinter wrote 29 stage plays; 26 screenplays; many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays; poetry; some short fiction; a novel; and essays, speeches, and letters.

Pinter became more politically oriented and started writing political plays during the 1980s for which he was criticised also. However, he continued his work without paying heed to anything.

In 2005,  the Nobel Prize was awarded to “Harold Pinter … Who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms.”

Pinter had been awarded the Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), the European Prize for Literature (Vienna), the Pirandello Prize (Palermo), the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, the Legion d’Honneur and the Moliere D’Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999 he was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He has received honorary degrees from seventeen universities.

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