Photographer John Minihan recalls his encounters with writer Edna O’Brien, from London in the 1970s to Cork this year

Tributes poured in for English Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter who died aged 78.

BRITISH playwright Harold Pinter, a master of sparse dialogue and menacing silences who has been an outspoken critic of the US-led war in Iraq, was the surprise winner of the Nobel literature prize yesterday.

Sofia Coppola is going to need a new translator. The Lost In Translation director is planning to set her next film in 18th-century Versailles.