Pinter wins Nobel prize

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.

Pinter wins Nobel prize

Mr Pinter said he was ā€œoverwhelmed,ā€ and then promptly announced he was giving up playwrighting.

ā€œI have written 29 plays and I think that’s really enough,ā€ said Pinter after a champagne celebration with his wife Lady Antonia Fraser at their London home.

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