Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter 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. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen.
Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- Royal Academy of Dramatic ArtRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Awards
- 🏆 Companion of Honour🏆 America Award in Literature🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature🏆 Sretenje Order, 1st class🏆 Franz Kafka Prize
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"It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable…"
"I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him."
"We have heard many times that tired, grimy phrase: 'Failure of communication...' and this phrase has been fixed to my work quite consistently. I believe the contrary. I think that we communicate only …"
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Timeline
1930
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