The Career of Harold Pinter - page 2

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His most recent big screen work saw him adapt the Tony Award winning play Sleuth in 2007 which starred Michael Caine and Jude Law and was directed by Kenneth Branagh.

He was awarded a CBE in 1966, later turned down a knighthood and became a Companion of Honour as well as winning the Nobel prize in Literature in 2005.

As well as his writing Pinter was also very politically active opposing the politics of the Cold War, NATO's bombing of Serbia and, more recently, the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. He announced that he was giving up writing for the theatre in 2005 to focus on his political work.

In 2002 he was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus for which he underwent a course of chemotherapy but he passed away on Christmas Eve.

His wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, said: "He was a great, and it was a privilege to live with him for over 33 years." And actors of his play No Man's Land in London's West End paid tribute to the popular writer.

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw