Harold Pinter
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	(1930-10-10)10. 10. 1930. Hackney, istočni London, Engleska
Smrt	24. 12. 2008. (dob: 78) London, Engleska
Nacionalnost	britanska
Supružnik	Vivien Merchant (1956–1980) Antonia Fraser (1980–2008)
Djeca	sin sa Merchant, šest pastorčadi sa Fraser
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	dramatičar, scenarist, glumac, kazališni redatelj, pjesnik
Opus
1947–2008
Inspiracija
Od Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, W. S. Graham, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, John Webster, W. B. Yeats; Film 1940-ih, 1950-ih i 1960-ih; nadrealizam
Na Alan Ayckbourn, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, W. S. Graham, Sarah Kane, David Mamet, Patrick Marber, Sam Shepard, Václav Havel, Heathcote Williams
Web-stranica
http://www.haroldpinter.org/

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10. oktobar 1930 – 2. decembar 2008) bio je Nobelovom nagradom nagrađeni engleski pisac i scenarist. Smatra se jednim od najuticajnijih britanskih dramatičara, a karijera mu je trajala pola vijeka. Najpoznatije drame su mu The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) i Betrayal (1978), od kojih je svaku adaptirao u film. Scenarističke adaptacije drugih djela uključuju The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) i Sleuth (2007). Također je glumio na radiju, kazalištu, filmu i televiziji, bilo da je riječ o adaptaciji vlastitih ili tuđih djela.

Pinter je rođen i odrastao u Hackneyu u istočnom Londonu i obrazovan u školi Hackney Downs. Tamo je trčao i bio strastveni igrač kriketa, glumio u školskim predstavama i pisao poeziju. Studirao je na Kraljevskoj akademiji dramskih umjetnosti ali nije diplomirao. Prilikom regrutacije u britanske oružane snage je oglobljen zbog prigovora savjesti. Nakon toga se nastavio školovati u Centralnoj školi za govor i dramu te nastupao u putujućim kazalištima u Irskoj i Engleskoj. Godine 1956. se oženio za Vivien Merchant koja mu je godine 1958 rodila sina po imenu Daniel. Godine 1975. je napustio Merchant i oženio se za spisateljicu Antoniju Fraser 1980.

Pinterova karijera dramatičara je započela sa dramom The Room 1957. Njegova druga drama The Birthday Party je skinuta sa repertoara nakon samo osam izvedbi, ali ju je sa oduševljenjem recenzirao kritičar Harold Hobson. Njegovi rani radovi su poznati kao "komedija prijetnja". Kasnije drame kao No Man's Land (1975) i Betrayal (1978) su poznati kao "drame sjećanja". Režirao je vlastite drame, kako u kazalištu, tako i na televiziji i filmu. Pinter je primio preko 50 nagrada, od kojih se ističu francuska Nobelova nagrada za književnost 2005. i francuska Legija časti 2007.

Posljednjih godina je Pinter stekao veliki publicitet po svom političkom angažmanu i žestokom kritikom rata protiv terorizma, odnosno politike Georgea W. Busha, koga je usporedio s Adolfom Hitlerom.

• HaroldPinter.org Arhivirano 2016-01-18 na Wayback Machine-u – The Official Website for the International Playwright Harold Pinter (home and index page)
• "Harold Pinter" Arhivirano 2009-01-13 na Wayback Machine-u at Granta (collection of useful links)
• "Harold Pinter" at guardian.co.uk ("The best of the Guardian's coverage, including tributes, reviews and articles from the archive," periodically updated)
• Harold Pinter at the Internet Broadway Database
• Harold Pinter na sajtu IMDb
• "Harold Pinter" in "Times Topics" at nytimes.com (periodically updated collection of news articles, reviews, commentaries, photographs, and Web resources from The New York Times )
• "Harold Pinter" Arhivirano 2007-05-17 na Wayback Machine-u on The Mark Shenton Show, TheatreVoice, recorded on 21 February 2007 (critics Michael Billington and Alastair Macaulay review Pinter's People and The Dumb Waiter; director and actor Harry Burton talks about his experiences with Pinter)
• "Harold Pinter – Interview", British Library Online Gallery: What's On, British Library, 8 September 2008 (Pinter discusses his memories of postwar British theatre with Harry Burton)
• Harold Pinter portrait Arhivirano 2011-09-02 na Wayback Machine-u by artist Joe Hill, joe-hill-art.com (offered at auction, with proceeds being donated to charity, on 27 September 2009)
• International Harold Pinter Society (Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association "in conjunction with" which The University of Tampa Press publishes The Pinter Review)
• Pinter Tribute: Essay: Pinter's Voices Five episodes, one broadcast each day on BBC Radio 3 from 16–20 February 2009: 1. Director Michael Colgan; 2. Critic Michael Billington; 3. Writer Lisa Appignanesi; 4. Film historian Ian Christie; and 5. Actor and director Harry Burton
• "Reputations: Harold Pinter" Arhivirano 2007-05-17 na Wayback Machine-u on TheatreVoice, recorded on 14 October 2005 (critical assessments by Michael Billington, Dan Rebellato, Charles Spencer and Ian Smith)

Harold Pinter na Wikimedijinoj ostavi

p r u Harold Pinter
Drame	Ashes to Ashes The Basement Betrayal The Birthday Party The Caretaker Celebration The Collection The Dumb Waiter The Dwarfs Family Voices The Homecoming The Hothouse A Kind of Alaska Landscape The Lover Moonlight Monologue Mountain Language A Night Out Night School No Man's Land Old Times One for the Road Party Time Remembrance of Things Past (ko-autor: Di Trevis) The Room Silence A Slight Ache Tea Party Victoria Station Voices (ko-autor: James Clarke)
Dramski skečevi	Apart From That Applicant The Black and White Dialogue for Three God's District Interview Last to Go The New World Order Night Precisely Press Conference Request Stop, Special Offer That's All That's Your Trouble Trouble in the Works
Scenario	Accident Betrayal The Birthday Party The Caretaker The Comfort of Strangers The Compartment The Dreaming Child The French Lieutenant's Woman The Go-Between The Handmaid's Tale The Heat of the Day The Homecoming Langrishe, Go Down The Last Tycoon Lolita Party Time The Proust Screenplay The Pumpkin Eater The Quiller Memorandum The Remains of the Day Reunion The Servant Sleuth The Tragedy of King Lear The Trial Turtle Diary Victory
Srodni članci	Djela Bibliografija Karakteristike Počasti i nagrade Odnos sa akademskom zajedinicom The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library Harold Pinter i politika Art, Truth and Politics