Harold Pinter, playwright of the pause, dies at 78 - International Herald Tribune

"The last of the Titans." - Ben Brantley, New York Times
A multimedia presentation of his works is at the link to the International Herald Tribune. His acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel prize for literature is above.

It will also be broadcasted tonight on Radio Free Kansas.
[An excerpt of Mel Gussow and Ben Brantley's obituary] ... An actor, essayist, screenwriter, poet and director as well as a dramatist, Pinter was also publicly outspoken in his views on repression and censorship, at home and abroad. He used his Nobel acceptance speech to denounce American foreign policy, saying that the United States had not only lied to justify waging war against Iraq, but that it had also "supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship" in the last 50 years. His political views were implicit in much of his work. Though his plays deal with the slipperiness of memory and human character, they are also almost always about the struggle for power. ... Click here for more information.