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Harold Pinter


Born
in Hackney, London, England, The United Kingdom
October 10, 1930

Died
December 24, 2008

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Theatre, Poetry

Influences
Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, William Shakes ...more


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. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works. ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 51,995 ratings · 2,865 reviews · 356 distinct works • Similar authors
The Birthday Party
3.71 avg rating — 12,507 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions
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The Homecoming
3.69 avg rating — 9,915 ratings — published 1964 — 64 editions
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Betrayal
3.94 avg rating — 8,308 ratings — published 1978 — 52 editions
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The Caretaker
3.66 avg rating — 4,131 ratings — published 1960 — 61 editions
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The Dumb Waiter
3.71 avg rating — 3,653 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions
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Complete Works: Volume 1
4.10 avg rating — 1,299 ratings — published 1976 — 24 editions
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The Birthday Party & The Room
3.84 avg rating — 1,120 ratings — published 1961 — 20 editions
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No Man's Land
3.72 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1975 — 38 editions
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The Caretaker & The Dumb Wa...
3.86 avg rating — 625 ratings — 12 editions
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The Room
3.33 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions
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Series by Harold Pinter

Complete Works: Volume 1 Complete Works: Volume 2 Complete Works: Volume 3 Complete Works: Volume 4
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“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
tags: life
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“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times
tags: false, falsehood, memory, recollection, truth
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“I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
― Harold Pinter, Betrayal
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