RIP: Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008)

Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter,78, died yesterday (December 24) according to this article on CNN’s website:

Pinter was known for such plays as "The Birthday Party" (1957), "The Homecoming" (1964), "No Man’s Land" (1974), "Mountain Language" (1988), and "Celebration" (2000). The works caught a linguistic rhythm — the legendary "Pinter pause" — and an air of social unease that resonated throughout the English-speaking world and in myriad translations.

Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. My thoughts and prayers go out to Pinter’s family, friends and all of his fans.

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