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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.
Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays
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 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.
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.
Dec 24, 2008 · Learn about the life and work of Harold Pinter, the British playwright who won the Nobel Prize for his dramas that expose oppression and incommunicability. Find out his biography, prize motivation, and political involvement.
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.
