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Harold Pinter

1930 - 2008

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Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Pinter is the 616th most popular writer (down from 524th in 2019), the 558th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 375th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Writer.

Harold Pinter is most famous for his plays. He was a British playwright who wrote many plays in the 1950s and 1960s. His plays are known for their use of silence, pauses, and confusion.

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Among writers, Harold Pinter ranks 616 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Ludwig Tieck, Sei Shōnagon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Amin Maalouf, and Aulus Gellius. After him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Saint Naum, Louise de La Vallière, Raymond Queneau, Han Kang, and Theodore Dreiser.

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Among people born in 1930, Harold Pinter ranks 48. Before him are Anisa Makhlouf, Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen, Tony Lip, Hugh Everett III, Pat Robertson, and Joanne Woodward. After him are Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Bernie Ecclestone, Akira Suzuki, and Biljana Plavšić. Among people deceased in 2008, Harold Pinter ranks 26. Before him are Sydney Pollack, Jørn Utzon, Richard Wright, Henry Molaison, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Michael DeBakey. After him are Leonid Hurwicz, William F. Buckley Jr., Roy Scheider, Jules Dassin, Yma Sumac, and Mel Ferrer.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Pinter ranks 558 out of 8,785. Before him are Edmund I (921), Kenneth MacAlpin (810), Austen Chamberlain (1863), Harry Kroto (1939), Dave Murray (1956), and Mordred (null). After him are Charlie Watts (1941), Harold Wilson (1916), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Adrian Smith (1957), George Everest (1790), and Sid Vicious (1957).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Harold Pinter ranks 59. Before him are James Hilton (1900), Beatrix Potter (1866), Frederick Forsyth (1938), John Donne (1572), George Eliot (1819), and Robert Burns (1759). After him are Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), Alexander Pope (1688), A. A. Milne (1882), and Gerald Gardner (1884).

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