Harold Pinter English playwright, poet, director, actor, public figure; winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature . One of the most influential British playwrights of his time[edit] Two London losers find a third who has fallen even lower than themselves, and hire him to guard an empty cluttered apartment. The beggar, the dirty, the animal, the cynical, the chauvinistically angry old man, or "beach," as they are called today, is in demand. Society not only needs an “empty person”, a “person without properties”, but society also needs a watchman. In the terrible, blurred face of the Guardian, European culture is experiencing its impending weakness before the forces ready to come, destroy the old civilization and self-destruct, for these forces are simple and single-celled. (Pavel Rudnev)