Harold Bloom died on Christmas Eve , his wife told British newspapers . Pinter , 78 , had been suffering from cancer . Pinter 's plays featured sparse dialogue , often spiced with paranoia or simple befuddlement . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 .
Harold Bloom died on Christmas Eve , his wife told British newspapers . Pinter , 78 , had been suffering from cancer . He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 .