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Harold Pinter (1930–2008)

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English playwright, poet, and political activist Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930, in London's East End. From childhood he was interested in literature and acting. He studied at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Pinter was a Nobel visa mer Prize-winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career 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 to film. Pinter published his first poems in 1950. He worked as a bit-part actor in a BBC Radio program and also toured with a Shakespearean troupe. Pinter has written over 30 plays, achieving great success internationally. He has also directed several of his dramas. Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant from 1956 to 1980, before wedding biographer Lady Antonia Fraser. From his first marriage he has a son who is a writer and musician. Pinter has won numerous prestigious literary prizes in poetry and theatre. He was awarded the Hermann Kesten Medallion for outstanding commitment on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers. He has been granted honorary degrees at universities in England, Scotland, the United States, Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy, and Greece. In 2005, Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died from cancer on December 24, 2008 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Harold Pinter

The Homecoming (1965) 1,010 exemplar
Betrayal (1978) 576 exemplar
The Caretaker (1960) 514 exemplar
Complete Works, Vol. 1 (1976) 512 exemplar
The Birthday Party (1957) 494 exemplar
The Birthday Party & The Room (1960) 449 exemplar
Complete Works, Vol. 2 (1977) 314 exemplar
Complete Works, Vol. 3 (1978) 297 exemplar
Old Times (1971) 254 exemplar
Complete Works, Vol. 4 (1981) 246 exemplar
No Man's Land (1975) 206 exemplar
The Dwarfs (1990) 193 exemplar
The French Lieutenant's Woman [1981 film] (1981) — Screenwriter — 126 exemplar
The Hothouse (1980) 101 exemplar
100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology (1986) — Redaktör — 96 exemplar
Ashes to Ashes (1996) 80 exemplar
Moonlight (1993) 80 exemplar
Landscape and Silence (1735) 73 exemplar
The Dumb Waiter (1960) 70 exemplar
Various Voices (1999) 62 exemplar
Death etc. (1978) 56 exemplar
Mountain Language (1988) 53 exemplar
Five Screenplays. (1971) — Författare — 52 exemplar
One for the Road (1984) 51 exemplar
The Room and The Dumb Waiter (1960) 50 exemplar
99 Poems in Translation: An Anthology (1994) — Redaktör — 50 exemplar
Celebration and The Room (2000) — Författare — 45 exemplar
Sleuth [2007 film] (2008) — Screenwriter — 43 exemplar
The Collection and The Lover (1963) — Författare — 40 exemplar
The Lover (1965) 37 exemplar
The Handmaid's Tale [1990 film] (1990) — screenplay — 36 exemplar
Collected Poems and Prose (1986) 36 exemplar
The Servant [1963 film] (1963) — Screenwriter — 33 exemplar
The Go-Between [1971 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 31 exemplar
A Slight Ache and other plays (1961) 29 exemplar
The Collection (Modern Plays) (1971) 25 exemplar
Poems and Prose, 1949-1977 (1978) 25 exemplar
The Room (1966) 24 exemplar
A Slight Ache (Modern Plays) (1961) 22 exemplar
The Quiller Memorandum [1966 film] (1966) — Writer — 21 exemplar
Party Time (1622) 20 exemplar
Tolv gånger Pinter (2005) 17 exemplar
The Comfort of Strangers [1990 film] (2003) — Writer — 16 exemplar
Accident [1967 film] (2010) — Screenwriter — 15 exemplar
The Last Tycoon [1976 film] (2003) — Screenwriter — 15 exemplar
Other places: Four plays (1984) 12 exemplar
Moonlight: And Other Pieces (2000) — Författare — 12 exemplar
The Caretaker and Other Pieces (2005) 11 exemplar
War (2003) 10 exemplar
Poems (1968) 10 exemplar
The Trial (1993) 10 exemplar
Butley [1974 film] (2013) — Regissör — 9 exemplar
The Trial [1993 film] — Writer — 9 exemplar
Family Voices (1981) 8 exemplar
Nio gånger Pinter (2005) 7 exemplar
Le retour (1965) 7 exemplar
Tea Party and The Basement. (1969) 7 exemplar
Celebration (2002) 6 exemplar
Monologue (1973) 6 exemplar
Landscape 6 exemplar
Press Conference (2002) 5 exemplar
Silence 5 exemplar
Esquetxos i altres peces (2001) 4 exemplar
La collection - l'amant - le gardien (1967) — Författare — 4 exemplar
Night School (1967) 4 exemplar
Harold Pinter (2005) 4 exemplar
Tea Party (1969) 4 exemplar
Drámák (2005) — Författare — 4 exemplar
Ashes to ashes and other plays (2009) — Författare — 3 exemplar
Plays 3 exemplar
Langrishe, Go Down [1978 film] — Screenwriter — 3 exemplar
Plays: three 3 exemplar
Night 3 exemplar
The Basement 3 exemplar
The Dreaming Child 2 exemplar
Plays three (2014) 2 exemplar
The Dumb Waiter: Selected Plays — Författare — 2 exemplar
I know the place : poems (1979) 2 exemplar
The New World Order (1992) 2 exemplar
Tea Party And Other Plays (1967) 2 exemplar
De bushalte 2 exemplar
Two Plays 2 exemplar
Frihetens språk (2009) 2 exemplar
Proust Senaryosu (2015) 1 exemplar
Gitgel Dlap 1 exemplar
The Pres and an Officer (2018) 1 exemplar
Kääbused : romaan (2009) 1 exemplar
GİTGEL DOLAP 1 exemplar
Quan torni a casa 1 exemplar
Harold Pinter's The Collection — Författare — 1 exemplar
Revue Sketches 1 exemplar
The Pumpkin Eater 1 exemplar
The Last Tycoon 1 exemplar
Applicant 1 exemplar
Victory 1 exemplar
Turtle Diary [1985 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar
The Homecoming [1973 film] (2003) — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar
Reunion 1 exemplar
That's Your Trouble (2013) 1 exemplar
That's All 1 exemplar
Zimanê çiya (1990) 1 exemplar
Thuiskomst, De 1 exemplar
Interview 1 exemplar
Stof zijt gij 1 exemplar
A Teia 1 exemplar
THE DWARFS 1 exemplar
Pinter Harold 1 exemplar
Dramen (1970) 1 exemplar
Prove d'autore (2002) 1 exemplar
Complete Works 1 exemplar
Mac (1979) 1 exemplar
Vier eenakters (1984) 1 exemplar
Dialogue for Three 1 exemplar
Harold Pinter 1 exemplar
Trouble in the Works (2013) 1 exemplar
Last to Go 1 exemplar
Razni glasovi (2001) 1 exemplar
Special Offer 1 exemplar
Secme Oyunlar (2020) 1 exemplar
Langrishe, Go Down 1 exemplar
workerbee 1 exemplar
La collezione. Paesaggio (1999) 1 exemplar
1 (2003) 1 exemplar
Dværgene (1991) 1 exemplar
GJASHTE DRAMA 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Granta 77: What We Think of America (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 217 exemplar
Nine Plays of the Modern Theater (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 182 exemplar
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Bidragsgivare — 178 exemplar
Granta 37: The Family (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 155 exemplar
Mansfield Park [1999 film] (2000) — Actor — 150 exemplar
Granta 59: France the Outsider (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 144 exemplar
Writers at Work 03 (1967) — Interviewee — 142 exemplar
Seven Plays of the Modern Theatre (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
Granta 51: Big Men (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 117 exemplar
Telling Tales and Other New One-Act Plays (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 113 exemplar
The Tailor of Panama [2001 film] (2001) — Actor — 83 exemplar
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 56 exemplar
Not One More Death (1741) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Rogue Male [1976 TV Movie] (1976) — Actor — 23 exemplar
Contemporary one-act plays (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
New English Dramatists 3 (1961) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Beckett at 60: a festschrift (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Laurence Olivier Presents [TV series] (2006) — original play — 4 exemplar
Five Modern Plays — Författare — 1 exemplar

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This is an unusual work - a one act play by Harold Pinter. The topic has been covered in books and movies, such as Awakenings starring Robin Williams based on the book by Oliver Sacks. It is disjointed, unclear, and rambles as a middle-aged woman who has been in a coma since she was sixteen is brought back by administration of L-Dopa. The style seems to channeling Samuel Beckett, but no one can write Samuel Beckett as well as Samuel Beckett, and I would have tagged Harold Pinter as one of the least likely to write Samuel Beckett well. I was only partially write. The play works in small ways, but would probably leave an audience behind without the introductory material in the preface.… (mer)
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Devil_llama | Nov 9, 2023 |
Troubling. Not a sympathetic character in the lot.
 
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rebwaring | 4 andra recensioner | Aug 14, 2023 |
I'm not a big reader of plays, but I'd like to change that. This collection was bought for me with the intent of me reading a particular Harold Pinter play that, as it happens, isn't contained in the collection. Ah well. I've been dipping in and out for a few years and I've loved most of what I've read. Absurdism in many forms has often turned me off, but for whatever reason, Pinter's brand of social eccentricity works for me. Sometimes the plays here seem impenetrable, but most remain compelling regardless, and nearly all of them are entertaining. I typically prefer his early social satires to some of the more abstract, non-linear experiments that he favoured in his later years, but I think that lies more with my capacity for unravelling the themes than anything to do with Pinter.

Anywho, I'm sure I'll come back to some of these and I will almost certainly need to check out some adaptations. Recommendations welcome.
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Ian McEwan Writer
John Fowles Original book
Liz Smith Actor
Carl Davis Composer
Anthony Shaffer Original play
L. P. Hartley Original book
Maurice Jarre Composer
Franz Kafka Original book
Simon Gray Author
Aidan Higgins Original book
Russell Hoban Original story
S.J. Popma Editor
Walter Kous Translator
Milan Lukeš Translator
Laura Del Bono Translator
Carl-Olof Lång Translator
Guido Davico Bonino Introduction
John Ritter Foreword
Joel Sang TÕlkija.
Elio Nissim Translator
Broes Hartman Translator
C. Schulten Translator
Karel Beunis Cover designer
Gerard Reve Translator

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Verk
236
Även av
29
Medlemmar
8,290
Popularitet
#2,917
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
73
ISBN
440
Språk
21
Favoritmärkt
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