The Nobel laureate, who was a friend of the Kurds, died in 2008 at the age of 78. Harold Pinter was born in 1930 and was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. Harold Pinter is one of the oldest friends of the Kurdish people and in 1985 he wrote a book about the Kurds and the banning of the Kurdish language called the book the (Mountain Language).[1]