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- Harold Pinter CH CBE (/ ˈpɪntər /; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years.
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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 (born Oct. 10, 1930, London, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 2008, London) was an English playwright, who achieved international renown as one of the most complex and challenging post-World War II dramatists.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Oct 23, 2019 · Here are the best of Harold Pinter's plays, with analysis of the themes and characters within his unique dramas.
- Wade Bradford
Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 until his death on Christmas Eve 2008.
Harold Pinter achieved the ultimate distinction for a living dramatist. He spawned his own adjective: 'Pinteresque'. It is generally applied to a situation fraught with menace in which common speech camouflages a ferocious battle for territory.
He was awarded the Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), the European Prize for Literature (Vienna), the Pirandello Prize (Palermo), the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, the Legion d’Honneur and the Moliere D'Honneur for lifetime achievement.
