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	Harold Pinter
		Playwright Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, London, on 10 October 1930.
		Harold Pinter is married to the writer Lady Antonia Fraser and lives in London.
		Pinter's early fascination with politics was also evident in The Hothouse(1980), a bilious fl comedy set in a state-run hospital in which nonconformists are classified as mental patients.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth01G24K343812605467 (1661 words)

	Wikipedia search result
		Pinter is the author of twenty-nine plays, fifteen dramatic sketches, over twenty screenplays and filmscripts for cinema and television, a novel, and other prose fiction and essays, and co-author of two works for stage and radio.
		Pinter was appointed CBE in 1966 and became a Companion of Honour in 2002 (having previously declined a knighthood in 1996).
		Pinter's drama was first perceived as a variation of absurd theatre, but has later more aptly been characterised as 'comedy of menace', a genre where the writer allows us to eavesdrop on the play of domination and submission hidden in the most mundane of conversations.
	feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Harold_Pinter (7492 words)

	Drama: Harold Pinter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Harold Pinter Society is dedicated to studying, celebrating, and untangling the works of this prolific and frequently enigmatic writer.
		Pinter was born into relatively humble circumstances in East London, but his early schooling distinguished him, and he eventually enrolled in London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts to study acting.
		The first of Pinter's plays to catch the attention of the general theater public was the commercially produced The Caretaker (1960), a play about two brothers, one of whom, Aston, invites a bewildered and all but mentally destroyed tramp, Davies, to become a caretaker in his room.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/pinter.htm (600 words)

	Harold Pinter
		Harold Pinter's plays are noted for their use of silence to increase tension, understatement, and cryptic small talk.
		Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, a working-class neighborhood in London's East End, the son of a tailor.
		On the outbreak of World War II Pinter was evacuated from the city to Cornwall; to be wrenched from his parents was a traumatic event for Pinter.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hpinter.htm (1646 words)

	Harold Pinter Collection
		One of England's most important playwrights, Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, near the East End of London, on October 10, 1930.
		Pinter is an accomplished director and has directed productions of his own plays and others; he served as Associate Director at the National Theatre from 1973 until 1983.
		Other materials at the HRHRC by or relating to Harold Pinter may be found in the David Hare, London Magazine, New Departures, Peter Owen, and Tom Stoppard collections.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/pinter.html (773 words)

	USATODAY.com - Playwright Pinter wins Nobel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pinter said he was "overwhelmed" and "speechless" upon learning of the award.
		Pinter, the son of a Jewish dressmaker, grew up in Hackney, a working-class borough of London.
		Pinter is married to prominent English biographer Lady Antonia Fraser and, in 2002, was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-10-13-nobel-pinter_x.htm (455 words)

	Harold Pinter News
		Harold Pinter's internationally celebrated play, "The Birthday Party," described as an enigmatic "comedy of terrors," has been scheduled for a series of performances at Eastern Illinois University Theatre's...
		As Harold Pinter prepares to tackle 'Krapp's Last Tape', novelist Colm Tibn looks forward to a meeting of two theatrical giants It was April 1997 and Harold Pinter had just come off the stage of the Gate...
		The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theatre In Act II of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, in the midst of the long awaited eponymous festivities, there is a chilling...
	www.topix.net /who/harold-pinter (698 words)

	www.haroldpinter.org - Active Campaigns and Live Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Harold Pinter is a sponsor for the European Network for Peace and Human Rights.
		Harold Pinter is an active delegate and speaker on behalf of the CSC, especially in its campaign against the US Embargo.
		Harold Pinter to speak at the First Annual Awards Dinner 5th February 2001.
	www.haroldpinter.org /politics/politics_active.shtml (563 words)

	Harold Pinter's artistic achievement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2005, it produced anxiety within government circles in Britain.
		Pinter’s determined opposition to US and British foreign policy, and his resistance to the renewed imperialist carve-up of the globe centring on the war against Iraq, have brought attacks on him from many quarters.
		Pinter was born in 1930 in Hackney, in northeast London, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/dec2005/pint-d29.shtml (2225 words)

	Harold Pinter
		Harold Pinter has been called "one of the most important playwrights of our day" by The New York Times, and his plays, including The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and The Caretaker, have become seminal works in our literary canon.
		Pinter has always been reluctant to comment on his work, preferring to let his writing speak for itself.
		Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the best working year of my life." Although never produced, Harold Pinter's The Proust Screenplay is considered one of the greatest adaptations for the cinema ever written.
	www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/PinterHarold.html (938 words)

	AM - Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Harold Pinter, who 's won the prize for literature, has a career spanning nearly half a century, from his earliest works, such as The Caretaker, to his more recent Remembrance of Things Past.
		The son of a Jewish dressmaker, Harold Pinter is also a well regarded poet, stage producer and screenwriter.
		HAROLD PINTER: It's a great release to me, by the way, when I can write a poem about love or the sea or you know, which I occasionally do, or cricket or old friends - things that are outside political considerations - but it's less and less easy to write something of substance.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1482078.htm (646 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate
		There is a review of it at Harold Pinter's web site, but it gives away an important secret.
		Pinter was also involved with the Kyle MacLachlan version of Kafka's The Trial as well as the Greta Scacchi (?) version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
		Though Pinter's always been a bit of a rebel, as I understand it it's only in the past five years that he's gone full-time into political activism (anti-US in Iraq).
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/10/harold-pinter-nobel-laureate.html (842 words)

	Harold Pinter Interview \| The Progressive
		But Pinter might be reluctant to apply such a phrase to his own writing.
		Pinter: Oh, well, of course it is. If you can say that an exploration of power and powerlessness is in itself political, I think that I wouldn't argue with that.
		Pinter: Well, I suppose, looking at their truth, finding what they really are, and not attempting to in any sense apologize for them, and certainly not to explain them--just to present them.
	progressive.org /mag_cusacpinter (3808 words)

	Harold Pinter Quiz
		Pinter remains to his credit, a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of accepted truths, both in life and art.
		Pinter’s only novel, later adapted for the stage, is about three men who...
		Pinter acted in several of his own plays at one time or another.
	www.barcelonareview.com /51/e_quiz.htm (410 words)

	www.haroldpinter.org - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 2005, Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the highest honour available to any writer in the world.
		Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
		Harold Pinter has been awarded the Wilfred Owen prize for poetry opposing the Iraq Conflict.
	www.haroldpinter.org /home/index.shtml (703 words)

	Shows to direct -- Pinter
		Harold Pinter wrote The Homecoming in 1964 and Peter Hall directed it at the Aldwych Theatre the following year...
		Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence by James R. Hollis; Southern Illinois University Press, 1970 - 1: The Room as Metaphor - 2: The Poverty of Self - 3: The Struggle for Possession: The Collection, Tthe Caretaker - 4: The Homecoming - 5: The Rest is Silence
		Pinter: I think what I try to do in my plays is to get this recognizable reality of the absurdity of what we do and how we behave and how we speak.
	shows.vtheatre.net /pinter.html (2863 words)

	Harold Pinter (1930 - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The son of a Jewish tailor, Harold Pinter was born in East London in 1930.
		Pinter wrote back and told his friend to forget the whole thing--then sat down and wrote the play in four days.
		Pinter has gone on to write a number of absurdist masterpieces including The Caretaker, The Homecoming, Betrayal, Old Times, and Ashes to Ashes.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc28.html (551 words)

	Roger L. Simon: Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize
		Pinter's recent political ravings are excrable, worse than that actually.
		Pinter may actually deserve the Nobel Prize for his writing, I think (as do many) that he received it at this time for his vitriol directed at the United States.
		I was recently informed that my favorite poet, Sharon Olds, made some extremely moonbatty gesture with regard to some poetry event at the White House she was invited to.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/10/harold_pinter_w.php (875 words)

	Harold Pinter
		An overview of Pinter's career, on the occasion of his 70th birthday An article by Michael Billington in The Guardian, 10/14/00.
		The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter, edited by Peter Raby.
		Pinter's own web site Haroldpinter.org has current news about the playwright and a wealth of information, including details about productions of all the plays and reviews of important productions and film versions, details about Pinter's acting experience, links to published interviews and articles about Pinter, and much more.
	www.literaryhistory.com /20thC/Pinter.htm (312 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Harold Pinter wins Nobel lit prize
		Pinter has been awarded both a Laurence Olivier Award and a Molière d'Honneur for lifetime achievement in the theatre.
		Pinter turned down a knighthood when John Major was prime minister.
		Pinter is scheduled to join the other Nobel winners, announced last week, to receive his prize at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10 – the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2005/10/13/nobel_pinter_051013.html (1385 words)

	Playwright Pinter wins Nobel literature prize - BOOKS - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 75-year-old Pinter, the most influential British playwright of his generation, is also an unrelenting critic of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, and of the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Pinter continues a long tradition of Nobel laureates who believe in taking sides and not settling for art for art’s sake.
		Pinter, the son of a Jewish tailor, was born in 1930 and was a rebel from an early age, declaring himself a conscientious objector and refusing to do then-compulsory military service.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9683026 (763 words)

	Playbill News: Harold Pinter Announces Retirement from Playwriting
		Playwright Harold Pinter, one of the few senior playwrights of distinction, has told the BBC that he has decided to stop writing plays.
		Pinter also told the BBC that political speeches increasingly attracted him, saying, “Over the last few years I’ve made a number of political speeches at various locations and ceremonies.
		Pinter’s last play was Remembrance of Things Past, which was published in 2000 and premiered at the National Theatre.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/91450.html (426 words)

	Harold Pinter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In his more recent work, Pinter continues to experiment with possibilities of theater, to search for the exact verbal and visual image, and to strive for theatrical economy.
		In October and November of 2002, "Pinter at the BBC," the most extensive festival accorded any living writer by the BBC, was presented over the national media to crown one of the most influential careers in British drama--one that continues into the twenty-first century.
		Papers: The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library is the most extensive collection of Pinter material, including manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, screenplays, poetry, and prose, donated by Pinter in September 1993.
	www.gwinnettpl.org /Feature/Pinter.htm (421 words)

	Harold Pinter - Poetry Archive
		Pinter's plays are well known for their menacing mood, and this is audible in the poems too; 'Later' begins with a view of a moon, which could be romanticised but instead progresses to a vision of flness through "Dead trees.
		But this is not his only mode, as can be seen from the brutal comedy of 'Message' or the awestruck precision of 'The Isles of Aran Seen from the Moher Cliffs'.
		Having studied at both the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Pinter is one of the few professionally-trained voices in the Poetry Archive.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=2991 (433 words)

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