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A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen.
Harold Pinter was an English playwright, poet, screenwriter, director, actor who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. As a child, he witnessed the bombing of London by Nazi forces during the Second World War.
Harold Pinter was an English playwright, who achieved international renown as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists. He won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008. (They were married in 1980).
Pinter’s personal life was as stormy as that of many of his characters. He was married to actress Vivien Merchant for several years, and they had one son.
Sep 6, 2018 · 1956 – He married his first wife, actress Vivien Merchant. They had a son named Daniel in 1958. 1957-1968 – In 1957, he wrote a short play, The Room, and wrote his first full-length drama, The Birthday Party. In 1958, it was staged in London where it received negative reviews and closed within a week.
Harold Pinter was one of the 20th century’s most influential dramatists: a humanist and activist described by his biographer Michael Billington as ‘a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of accepted truths, both in life and art’.
Dec 24, 2008 · Harold Pinter was a British writer, born in London where he lived his whole life. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in the Hackney district, the son of Jewish immigrants. World War II and the prevailing anti-Semitic sentiment have characterized his writing.
Harold Pinter was married to the writer Lady Antonia Fraser and lived in London. In 2005, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in December 2008.
Nov 25, 2008 · Nov. 25, 2008. Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his...
