Harold Pinter, (born Oct. 10, 1930, London, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 2008, London), English playwright, who achieved international renown as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists. In 2005 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Works: - The Room (1957) - The Birthday Party (1957), - The Dumb Waiter (1957), - The Caretaker (1959), - The Homecoming (1964), - Landscape (1967), - Silence (1968), - No Man’s Land (1974) Source: britannica and NobelPrize.org