Harold Pinter

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born

October 10, 1930

gender

male

place of birth

Hackney, London, England, United Kingdom

website

http://www.haroldpinter.org

genre

Literature & Fiction

influences

Samuel Beckett, Luis Buñuel, Franz Kafka, Wilfred Owen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Surrealism

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Awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."

books by Harold Pinter

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avg rating: 3.91 | 1358 ratings | 130 distinct works

	Betrayal (Pinter Plays) by Harold Pinter avg rating 4.11 — 166 ratings — published 1998 4 editions	my rating:
	The Birthday Party (Pinter Plays) by Harold Pinter avg rating 3.79 — 162 ratings — published 1991 4 editions	my rating:
	The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays (Paperback) by Harold Pinter avg rating 4.06 — 96 ratings — published 1971	my rating:
	Complete Works: One : The Birthday Party/the Room/the Dumb Waiter/a Slight Ache/a Night Out/the Black and White/the Examination (Complete Works) by Harold Pinter avg rating 4.29 — 56 ratings — published 1990	my rating:
	Complete Works : Two : The Caretaker, the Dwarfs, the Collection, the Lover, Night School, Revue Sketches (Paperback) by Harold Pinter avg rating 4.29 — 51 ratings — published 1990	my rating:
	Complete Works: Old Times, No Man's Land, Betrayal, Monologue, Family Voices (Complete Works) by Harold Pinter avg rating 4.32 — 37 ratings — published 1990	my rating:
	The Caretaker. (Paperback) by Harold Pinter avg rating 3.80 — 41 ratings — published 1998 4 editions	my rating:
	The Screenplay of The French Lieutenant's Woman (Hardcover) by Harold Pinter, John Fowles avg rating 3.87 — 39 ratings — published 1981 3 editions	my rating:
	The Dumb Waiter (Acting Edition) by Harold Pinter avg rating 3.59 — 34 ratings — published 1960	my rating:
	The Caretaker and the Dumb Waiter (Paperback) by Harold Pinter avg rating 3.77 — 30 ratings — published 1960 2 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Harold Pinter

"One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
— Harold Pinter

tags: life

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'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.'
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— Harold Pinter

tags: postmodernism

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