Tributes are pouring in for legendary British playwright Harold Pinter, who died on Wednesday aged 78.

The writer, who penned classic plays including The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 for his contribution to the arts, passed away following a long battle with cancer.

And friends and former colleagues have lined up to pay tribute to Pinter following his death.

Notable British playwright Harold Pinter has died. He was 76.

The star passed away on Wednesday following a long battle with cancer.

Pinter - whose most famous plays included The Birthday Party and The Dumb Waiter - was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 for his contribution to the arts.

Director David Cronenberg is taking a break from movie making to write his first novel.

The Fly filmmaker has already been inundated with offers of publishing deals for his first book - despite the fact he has only written 60 pages, and has yet to decide what direction his creation will take.

Cronenberg, whose last movie was 2007’s Eastern Promises, made the announcement at the Rome Film Festival in Italy last week.

Star Trek icon William Shatner is set to turn his sci-fi novels into a series of comic books.

The actor has teamed up with illustrators at BlueWater Productions to adapt his stories into graphic novels.

He told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: “They will be in the stores in March of 2009. I loved comics as a kid and. I used to sit under the sheets with a flashlight and read Superman when I was six in Montreal, and now, with the comics as they are today, it’s thrilling.”

Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has reportedly turned down a lucrative book deal - because she feels she is too young to write her life story.

The Back To Black hitmaker has struggled with a variety of personal problems throughout her career, including drug and alcohol addiction and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil being incarcerated on charges of assault and perverting the course of justice.

The American summer camp is a legendary experience most US teens and children are put through. 

From two of the authors of the seminal kitsch classic Barmitzvah Disco, which told the story of coming of age for Jewish kids and a few non-Jewish, now comes Camp Camp, a look at the people who attended summer camps mainly in the 1980s and 1990s and their true life experiences of them.

Super producer Mark Ronson was rushed to hospital after he fell from a bunk bed and knocked himself unconscious as a child - and he is terrified of summer camps as a result.

The producer reveals his life-long phobia in a new book, “Camp Camp,” containing memories of the American childhood activity, reports New York gossip column PageSix.