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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 · 55,647 ratings · 3,218 reviews · 395 distinct works • Similar authors
The Birthday Party
3.71 avg rating — 13,002 ratings — published 1957 — 64 editions
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The Homecoming
3.68 avg rating — 10,165 ratings — published 1964 — 72 editions
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Betrayal
3.93 avg rating — 8,700 ratings — published 1978 — 55 editions
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The Caretaker
3.66 avg rating — 4,344 ratings — published 1960 — 72 editions
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The Dumb Waiter
3.72 avg rating — 3,907 ratings — published 1957 — 16 editions
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Complete Works: Volume 1
4.10 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1976 — 25 editions
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Old Times
3.75 avg rating — 1,205 ratings — published 1971 — 28 editions
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The Birthday Party & The Room
3.84 avg rating — 1,135 ratings — published 1961 — 23 editions
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No Man's Land
3.73 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 1975 — 40 editions
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The Room
3.33 avg rating — 745 ratings — published 1957 — 9 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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Polls

July 2022 Short Story/Novella Poll

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, 116 pages, 1892,
 
  56 votes, 24.5%

 
  41 votes, 17.9%

 
  39 votes, 17.0%

 
  30 votes, 13.1%

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, 96 pages, 1957
 
  22 votes, 9.6%

The Garden Party and Other Stories Title Story Only by Katherine Mansfield, 25 pages, 1921
 
  21 votes, 9.2%

The Altar of the Dead by Henry James, 36 pages, 1895
 
  20 votes, 8.7%

229 total votes
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