Pinter, widely regarded as the UK's greatest living playwright, is well-known for his left-wing political views.
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Michael Billington, Pinter's friend and biographer, said he was "devastated and saddened" by the news.
Veteran politician Tony Benn said Pinter was a great figure on the political scene.
Last month, Jason Pinter asked the provocative question: Does Social Networking Kill the Author Mystique?
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The group included John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, amongst others.
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The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded this morning to an English playwright, Harold Pinter.
The bookmakers did not have Harold Pinter on their list of the shortest odds.
Pinter is often lumped together with the theater of the absurd, although that's not quite right.
He was not an indiscriminate admirer of the new, he loved Pinter and Storey.
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If you want to stage a tribute to Pinter, the stage is yours.
Pinter, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, was a vocal critic of the policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Pinter wins Nobel literary prize
The older dramatist's reaction to Mr Pinter one of the new wave of writers who displaced Coward and all he stood for is revealing.
The director, Malcolm Venville, shoots the movie like a man who has spent time wondering how he could merge Harold Pinter and Quentin Tarantino.
It was nine years before Mr Pinter acted in another of his plays, "The Homecoming", as Lenny, whose character resembles Mick's in several respects.
Eventually Roote gets his come-uppance at the hands of his deputy Gibbs a part Mr Pinter might have preferred had he been a few years younger.
The author of more than 30 plays, Pinter also writes prose.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Pinter wins Nobel literary prize
Also an actor, poet, screenwriter and director, Pinter was known for his left-wing political views and was an outspoken critic of US and UK foreign policy.
But having examined closely the carbon spherules purported to contain nanodiamonds in this case, Tyrone Daulton, Nicholas Pinter and Andrew Scott say there has been a misinterpretation.
His lawyers are working on behalf of The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic, which includes British playwright Harold Pinter and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
It was not until 1985 that Mr Pinter took to the boards again, as Deeley in the Los Angeles production of "Old Times", written 15 years earlier.
Mr. Kessler insists rather too deliberately on the play's mysteriousness, and his naturalistic language contains none of the cold, thwarted poetry with which Mr. Pinter's work is charged.
The archive was acquired through the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, which has previously helped the Library secure the archives of John Berger, Ted Hughes and Harold Pinter.
My only brush with Harold Pinter had been fiercely disappointing.
Like those before him, Pinter's combination of public recognition, excellent communication skills, wide range of contacts and burning passion to change the world, may yet prove a potent mix.
The great leveller is that whether you are an Oscar nominee like John Malkovich (directing A Celebration of Pinter) or a complete newcomer, you are effectively on the same bill.
The British doctor, whose work inspired the movie Awakenings as well as Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, is still seeing patients in his adopted home of New York.
Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the citation said "in his plays he uncovers the precipice in everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms".
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