The 2005 Nobel-winning dramatist was Harold Pinter, a British playwright, actor, director, poet, and political activist. He was known for his plays that explored the themes of power, language, and identity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 for his 'writing which, in new forms for the theatre, in the burden of memory and history, in the clarity with which he expressed the terrors of existence, gives us fresh access to reality'.