Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter dies at 78

Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter dies at 78
The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The wife of Harold Pinter says the Nobel Prize-winning playwright has died after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 78.

His wife Antonia Fraser says Pinter, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died Wednesday.

She says: "It was a privilege to live with him for over 33 years. He will never be forgotten."

Pinter was praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a loud voice of protest in the political arena.

His distinctive contribution to the stage was enshrined in an adjective — "Pinteresque."

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