Harold Pinter, the British playwright and Nobel laureate famous for brooding portrayals of domestic life and his barbed politics, died aged 78 on Christmas Eve after battling cancer.

• 以刻画家庭生活和尖刻讽刺著称的英国剧作家及诺贝尔奖得主-哈罗德品特由于癌症在圣诞前夜去世，享年78岁。