Pinter, Harold

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PINTER, Harold

PINTER, Harold. British, b. 1930. Genres: Plays/Screenplays, Poetry. Career: Professional actor, 1949-60, also a director: Associate Director, National Theatre, London, 1973-83; screenwriter. Publications: The Birthday Party, 1958; The Caretaker, 1960; The Birthday Party and Other Plays, 1960, in US as The Birthday Party, and The Room (includes The Dumb Waiter), 1961; A Slight Ache and The Dumb Waiter, 1961; Three Plays: A Slight Ache, The Collection, The Dwarfs, 1962; The Collection, 1962; The Collection, and The Lover, 1963, The Lover, 1965; Tea Party, 1965; The Homecoming, 1965; The Dwarfs and Eight Revue Sketches, 1965; Tea Party and Other Plays, 1967; The Lover, The Tea Party, The Basement, 1967; Mac, 1968; Landscape, 1968; Landscape and Silence (includes Night), 1969; Five Screenplays, 1971; Old Times, 1971; Monologue, 1973; The Last Tycoon, 1974; No Man's Land, 1975; Plays, 3 vols, 1975-78; The Proust Screenplay: A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, 1977; Poems and Prose 1949-1977, 1978; Betrayal, 1978; I Know the Place (poetry), 1979; The French Lieutenant's Woman (screenplay), 1980; The Hothouse, 1980; Family Voices, 1981; Other Places (Family Voices, Victoria Station, A Kind of Alaska), 1982; Victory, 1982; Turtle Diary, 1984; One for the Road, 1985; Collected Poems and Prose, 1986; The Handmaid's Tale, 1987; Reunion, 1988; Mountain Language, 1988; The Heat of the Day, 1988; The Comfort of Strangers (screenplay), 1989; The Trial, 1989; Reunion and Other Screenplays, 1990; The New World Order, 1991; Party Time, 1991; Moonlight, 1993; (ed.) 99 Poems in Translation, 1994; Conversations with Pinter, 1994; Ashes to Ashes, 1995; Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1998; Celebration, 1999; Remembrance of Things Past, 2000. Address: c/o Judy Daish Assocs, 2 St. Charles Place, London W10 6EG, England. Online address: www.haroldpinter.org

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