Harold Pinter Biography

The material from Vikino, a free source of news on December 25 of the year in London, the Nobel Prize in Literature, British playwright Harold Pinter died. According to his wife Antonia Fraser, Pinter died on the very eve of Christmas due to cancer at the age of 78. Harold Pinter, actor, director, poet and political activist, previously planned to accept an honorary degree in the Central School of Oratory and Drama in the British capital.

The Pinter, awarded the Nobel Prize of the year for the "bright disclosure of the depths of oppression", is a recognized classic of the British post -war drama.

In a creative career, he created 29 plays. His last play "Memories of the past" saw the light of the year. The biography of Garold Pinter Harold Pinter was born on October 10 in London, in the Jewish tailor family. In childhood, he played at the school theater, including Romeo and McBet in the production of Shakespeare's plays, says RIA Novosti in the biographical certificate. In the year, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, which he never graduated.

Two years later, the Pinter published his first poetic works, and in the year the debut play "Room", which was staged in Bristol. After that, other famous plays were written: “Return home”, “Birthday”, “Managing”, “betrayal” and others. Pinter played a lot in the theater, wrote scripts for television productions and won fame not only in the UK, but also abroad, his plays were translated into many European languages.

He also succeeded as a director and screenwriter of the films, including “Servant”, “Pumpkin Eater”, “Accident”, “Mediator”, “Woman of the French Lieutenant”, “betrayal”. In the year, Pinter received the first prestigious award: he became a gentleman of the Order of the British Empire. It was followed by others - the European Literary Prize, the Chilean Order for Merit, the Honorary Moliere, and only two dozen awards.

Pinter devoted a significant part of his life to human rights. Back in the beginning of the x, he became an activist of the human rights movement. In recent years, Pinter sharply criticized the foreign policy of the United States and Great Britain, including the war in Iraq and the bombing of Afghanistan in the year. In the year, he published a collection of poems "War", in which he expressed the condemnation of the Iraqi conflict.

In early March, Harold Pinter said he was stopping playing drama and that he now intends to focus on verses and politics, since he is "very worried about the current state of affairs." At this point, he was considered the most famous among the living British playwrights. Sources [edit] Creative Commons, this article is automatically loaded with Newsbots boot into the archive and has not yet been checked by Vikino stroke editors.

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