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Pinter wrote 32 plays during his career
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Broadway theatres have dimmed their lights in honour of playwright Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve.
The Broadway League said lights in the New York theatre district were dimmed for about one minute at 7pm on Tuesday (0000 GMT).
Pinter, who wrote 32 plays, one novel and 22 screenplays, died at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer.
He won the Tony Award for best play in 1967 for The Homecoming and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005.
Amongst his most famous plays are The Birthday Party and The Caretaker.
‘Genius’
Charlotte Saint Martin, executive director of The Broadway League, said: “Harold Pinter has been called one of the most influential and imitated playwrights of his generation.
“We are so grateful for his genius and distinct contributions to modern theatre.”
Pinter was born in Hackney, in London’s East End in 1930.
He was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in 2002 and following treatment had announced that he was on the road to recovery.
Three years later, he said he had given up writing in order to concentrate on political work.
A production of his 1975 play No Man’s Land, starring Sir Michael Gambon, David Walliams, David Bradley and Nick Dunning, is running at the Duke of York’s theatre in London.
