![]() ![]() In 1957 he started writing short plays that immediately gained critical notice, while "The Caretaker" gave him his first popular success. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and began his career as an actor, using the pseudonym David Baron he would continue to perform on stage and screen throughout his life. ![]() Pinter was born in London, the son of a Jewish tailor. I think we communicate only too well in our silences". ![]() "So often below the words spoken is the thing known but unspoken. "Language is a highly ambiguous commerce", he once said. His characters, often shut up in confined spaces, play cat-and-mouse games of dominance and survival cryptic, non-sequitur dialogue, unexplained occurrences, and long pauses create even greater anxiety. Pinter's stage works have been called "comedies of menace" because they blend dark humor with a lurking but undefined sense of danger. He received the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() Regarded by many as the most influential British dramatist of his generation. ![]()
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