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Pin·ter  (pntr), Harold 1930-2008.
British playwright, screenwriter, and director. His plays, including The Birthday Party (1958) and The Dumb Waiter (1960), create an atmosphere of menace. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2005.
Pinter·esque (-sk) adj.
Pinter [ˈpɪntə]
n
(Biographies / Pinter, Harold (1930 M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Harold. born 1930, English dramatist. His plays, such as The Caretaker (1959), The Homecoming (1964), No Man's Land (1974), Moonlight (1993), and Celebration (2000), are noted for their equivocal and halting dialogue
Pinteresque  adj
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Noun1.Pinter - English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)
Harold Pinter


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