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Pin·ter (p

r), 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 (-

) adj.

Pinteresque [ˌpɪntərˈɛsk]

adj

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) reminiscent of the plays of Harold Pinter, the English dramatist (born 1930), noted for their equivocal and halting dialogue

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