Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays; screenplays for films; awards and nominations for screenwriting; dramatic sketches; prose fiction; collected poetry; and awards for poetry. It augments a section of the main article on this author.

Stage and television plays

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'' (1957) *'' The Birthday Party'' (1957) *''

The Dumb Waiter ''The Dumb Waiter'' is a one-act play by Harold Pinter written in 1957. "Small but perfectly formed, ''The Dumb Waiter'' might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early plays, more consistent than ''The Birthday Party'' and sharper tha ...

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A Slight Ache ''A Slight Ache'' is a tragicomic play written by Harold Pinter in 1958 and first published by Methuen in London in 1961. It concerns a married couple's dreams and desires, focusing mostly on the husband's fears of the unknown, of growing ol ...

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The Hothouse ''The Hothouse'' (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between '' The Birthday Party'' (1957) and ''The Caretaker'' (1959). After writing ''The Hothouse'' in the winter of 1958 and following the ...

'' (1958) *''

The Caretaker ''The Caretaker'' is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. Although it was the sixth of his major works for stage and television, this psychological study of the confluence of power, allegiance, innocence, and corruption among two brothers a ...

'' (1959) *'' A Night Out'' (1959) *''

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'' (1960) *'' The Dwarfs'' (1960) *'' The Collection'' (1961) *'' The Lover'' (1962) *''

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The Homecoming ''The Homecoming'' is a two-act play written in 1964 by Harold Pinter and first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony A ...

'' (1964) *'' The Basement'' (1966) *'' Landscape'' (1967) *''

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Old Times ''Old Times'' is a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter. It was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in London on 1 June 1971. It starred Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin, and Vivien Merchant, and was direct ...

'' (1970) *'' Monologue'' (1972) *'' No Man's Land'' (1974) *''

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Family Voices ''Family Voices'' is a radio play by Harold Pinter written in 1980 and first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 22 January 1981. Summary ''Family Voices'' exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters ...

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A Kind of Alaska ''A Kind of Alaska'' is a one-act play written in 1982 by British playwright Harold Pinter. Summary A middle-aged woman named Deborah, who has been in a comatose state for thirty years as a result of contracting "sleepy sickness," encephalitis l ...

'' (1982) *'' Victoria Station'' (1982) *'' One for the Road'' (1984) *'' Mountain Language'' (1988) *'' The New World Order'' (1991) *'' Party Time'' (1991) *'' Moonlight'' (1993) *'' Ashes to Ashes'' (1996) *'' Celebration'' (1999) *''

Remembrance of Things Past ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...

'' (2000) — stage adaptation of '' The Proust Screenplay''; a collaboration with

Di Trevis Diane "Di" Trevis (born 8 November 1947) is an English theatre director and actress. Early life and education Trevis was born in Birmingham and educated at Sussex University. Career After eight years as an actress, which included appearances in ...

Awards and nominations for plays

;Broadway *1962

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'' (nominee) *1977 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play (Foreign): '' No Man's Land'' (nominee)

Dramatic sketches

*'' The Black and White'' (1959) *'' Trouble in the Works'' (1959) *'' The Last to Go'' (1959) *'' Request Stop'' (1959) *''

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'' (1959) *'' That's All'' (1959) *''

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Applicant ''Applicant'' is a dramatic sketch written by Harold Pinter. Originally written in 1959 and first published by Eyre Methuen in 1961, it was first broadcast on BBC Radio on the Third Programme "between February and March 1964," along with Pinter ...

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'' (1959) *''Umbrellas'' (1960) *''

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'' (1969) *'' Precisely'' (1983) *" God's District" (1997) — monologue written for the revue ''Then Again...'' *''

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'' (2002) *'' Apart From That'' (2006)

Radio plays

*'' Voices'' (2005) — collaboration with composer James Clarke

Screenplays for films

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The Pumpkin Eater ''The Pumpkin Eater'' is a 1964 British drama film starring Anne Bancroft as an unusually fertile woman and Peter Finch as her philandering husband. The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortim ...

'' (1963) *" The Compartment" (1965) — unpublished screenplay for unproduced film; adapted for stage as '' The Basement'' (1966) *''

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'' (1966) *'' The Birthday Party'' (1968) — unpublished screenplay adapted by Pinter from his play '' The Birthday Party'' (1957) *''

The Go-Between ''The Go-Between'' is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïv ...

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'' (1969) *'' Langrishe, Go Down'' (1970; adapted for TV 1978; film release 2002) *'' The Proust Screenplay'' (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000);

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International Classics and first screened in movie theaters in New York in "February 1983," according to Susan Hollis Merritt, ''Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter'' (1990; Durham and London: Duke UP, 1995) 236, 300; the first film reviews of such New York commercial screenings cited by Merritt date from 20 February 1983 on (236–39). The film was nominated for 1983

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'' (1982) — published but unproduced *'' Turtle Diary'' (1984) *"

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'' *'' Reunion'' (1989) *'' The Heat of the Day'' (1988) — adapted for TV *'' The Comfort of Strangers'' (1989) *"

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" (1991) — unpublished and uncredited (at Pinter's request) screenplay commissioned for the 1993 film ''

'' *'' Party Time'' (1992) — revised and adapted for TV *''

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'' (1993) *" Lolita" (1994) — unpublished and uncredited screenplay commissioned for the 1997 film '' Lolita'' *'' The Dreaming Child'' (1997) — published but unproduced; adapted from a short story by

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*" The Tragedy of King Lear" (2000) — unpublished screenplay commissioned by actor

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Awards and nominations for screenwritingSteven H. Gale, "''Appendix B: Honors and Awards for Screenwriting''", in ''Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process'' (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003).

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'' (winner) *1982 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay––Motion Picture: ''

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for Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: ''

'' (nominee) *1983 BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay: ''

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Prose fiction

*"Kullus" (1949) *''The Dwarfs'' (written from 1952 to 1956; rev. and first published 1990) (Novel) *"Latest Reports from the Stock Exchange" (1953) *"The Black and White" (1954–55) *"The Examination" (1955) *"Tea Party" (1963) *"The Coast" (1975) *"Problem" (1976) *"Lola" (1977) *"Short Story" (1995) *"Girls" (1995) *"Sorry About This" (1999) *"Tess" (2000) *"Voices in the Tunnel" (2001) *"The Mirror" (2007)

Collected poetry

*''Poems'' (1971) *''I Know the Place'' (1977) *''Poems and Prose 1949–1977'' (1978) *''Ten Early Poems'' (1990) *''Collected Poems and Prose'' (1995) *''"The Disappeared" and Other Poems'' (2002) *''Poems by Harold Pinter Chosen by

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''. Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlets, 2002. (Limited ed. of 300 copies, "of which the first fifty are numbered and signed by the selector.") *''Six Poems for A''. Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlets, 2007. (10). (13).

Anthologies and other collections

*''99 Poems in Translation: An Anthology Selected by Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, & Geoffrey Godbert'' (1994) *''100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology Selected by Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, & Geoffrey Godbert'' (1987; rpt. 1992) *''101 Poems Against War'' (2003). Eds. Matthew Hollis & Paul Kegan. Afterword Andrew Motion. (Incl. "

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", by Harold Pinter 0) *''War'' (2003) *''Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2005'' (1998; rev. & updated, 2005) *''Death etc.'' (2005) *''The Essential Pinter'' (2006) *''Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008'' (1998 & 2005; rev. & updated, 2009)

Awards for poetry

*2004

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Award for Poetry"In recognition of Pinter's lifelong contribution to literature, 'and specifically for his collection of poetry entitled War, published in 2003.'"

Speeches

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Notes

Works cited

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Stage and television plays

Awards and nominations for plays

Dramatic sketches

Radio plays

Screenplays for films

Awards and nominations for screenwritingSteven H. Gale, "''Appendix B: Honors and Awards for Screenwriting''", in ''Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process'' (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003).

Prose fiction

Collected poetry

Anthologies and other collections

Awards for poetry

Speeches

See also

Notes

Works cited

External links