WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Pinter has received more than 2,992,386 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Harold Pinter is the 524th most popular writer (down from 479th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 371st in 2019) and the 43rd 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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  • 66.46

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  • 95

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  • 5.94

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  • 6.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The hothouse
Drama
THE STORY: The scene is a government institution, possibly mental or medical and presumably penal, where the inmates are kept behind locked gates and are referred to by number rather than name. In charge is Roote, a pompous ex-colonel who is surely
19804 / 5
The dwarfs
Mental illness
1965
The collection
1963
No man's land
Drama
19754 / 5
Betrayal
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harold Pinter ranks 524 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry IV of Castile, Elie Wiesel, Marie-Antoine Carême, Tennessee Williams, Premchand, and Jostein Gaarder. After him are Jean Paul, Imadaddin Nasimi, Pierre de Ronsard, Kumārajīva, Richard Bach, and José Martí.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Harold Pinter ranks 31. Before him are Ion Iliescu, Maximilian Schell, Carlos Menem, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Silvana Mangano. After him are Johan Galtung, Immanuel Wallerstein, Hugh Everett III, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, and Ali al-Sistani. Among people deceased in 2008, Harold Pinter ranks 20. Before him are Mahmoud Darwish, Hua Guofeng, Willis Lamb, Richard Widmark, Richard Wright, and Sydney Pollack. After him are George Habash, Jørn Utzon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Yma Sumac, Michael Crichton, and Jacques Piccard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Pinter ranks 375 out of 8,785. Before him are William Laud (1573), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Harthacnut (1018), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Calico Jack (1682), and Martin Ryle (1918). After him are Hugh Grant (1960), George Mallory (1886), G. H. Hardy (1877), Kenneth Branagh (1960), Mordred (null), and Christian de Duve (1917).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Harold Pinter ranks 43. Before him are G. K. Chesterton (1874), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Thomas Paine (1737), Philip Larkin (1922), Anthony Burgess (1917), and Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849). After him are Robert Burns (1759), George Eliot (1819), A. A. Milne (1882), Enid Blyton (1897), Samuel Butler (1835), and D. H. Lawrence (1885).

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