HOLLYWOOD - British playwright Harold Pinter has checked into a London hospital, only a week after backing out of attending the presentation ceremony for his Nobel Prize for Literature in Sweden.
The Birthday Party writer, 75, announced last week he would be unable to make the journey to Stockholm on Saturday due to "health reasons," leaving his publisher Stephen Page to accept the $1.3 million prize.
And his agent Judy Daish confirmed today the ailing scriptwriter is back in the hospital being treated for an undisclosed illness.
She says, "He hasn't been very well for a while. He is back in the hospital."
Despite Pinter's hospital visit, he was well enough to record the traditional laureate's lecture yesterday, which will be presented at the Swedish Academy later this month.
Daish adds, "He recorded his Nobel lecture yesterday in a studio, so in order for him to have done that presumably he must be stronger than he has been."
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