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Harold Pinter on winning Nobel Prize

Playwright Harold Pinter, who has died at the age of 78, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2005.

In an interview he gave after the announcement was made, he said news of the accolade had left him ''speechless.''

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