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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.
May 16, 2024 · 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.
Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays; screenplays for films; awards and nominations for screenwriting; dramatic sketches; prose fiction; collected poetry; and awards for poetry. It augments a section of the main article on this author.
In 2005, Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the highest honour available to any writer in the world. In announcing the award, Horace Engdahl, Chairman of the Swedish Academy, said that Pinter was an artist “who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression’s closed rooms”.
Plays by Harold Pinter. "Pinter did what Auden said a poet should do. He cleaned the gutters of the English language, so that it ever afterwards flowed more easily and more cleanly.
Learn about the life and career of Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Explore his plays, films, radio works and awards from 1957 to 2008.
Watch the video of Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture in 2005, where he explores the themes of reality, truth and politics in his plays. He discusses his creative process, his use of language and his views on political theatre and satire.
