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Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright, director, actor, poet, and political activist. He has written works for theater, radio, television and film. The recipient of scores of awards and honorary degrees, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.
Biography
Pinter was born in Hackney in London to working-class Jewish parents of Eastern-European ancestry. Contrary to earlier speculations, "three of Pinter's grandparents hail from Poland and one from Odessa, making them Ashkenazic rather than Sephardic Jews."Billington, Life and Work 1-5: "A constant feature of the Pinter legend, repeated in all the books, is that the family were Sephardic Jews of Spanish or Portuguese origin and that the original family name was Pinto, da Pinto or da Pinta, but there seems no evidence for this whatsoever. Indeed Antonia Fraser, with a historian's passion for geneaology, sat down with Pinter's parents one afternoon after lunch in Holland Park and discovered the real story: three of Pinter's grandparents paternal grandfather, Nathan Pinter, and his grandmothers hail from Poland and one maternal grandfather, Harry Moskowitz (in business, aka Richard Mann) from Odessa, making them Ashkenazic rather than Sephardic Jews" (3). ("Pinter's paternal grandfather Nathan was born in Poland in 1870 and came to England alone in 1900 in the wave of Russian pograms. He later went back for his wife and family. . . . third child Jack, Harold Pinter's father, was born in the East End in 1902. . ." Moskowitz (Richard Mann) emigrated to London from Odessa "via Paris" in 1900 and remarried "Polish-born Rose Franklin" following his first wife's death; Pinter's mother, Frances, their "eldest" child, was born in 1904 *.)" target="_blank" >In the Aug. 1950 issue of Poetry London, Pinter's first poems to appear in such a poetry magazine ("New Year in the Midlands" and "Chandeliers and Shadows") were "published under the name of Harold Pinta largely because one of his aunts was convinced—against all the evidence—that the family came from distinguished Portuguese ancestors, the da Pintas" (29). Pinter also discussed his heritage with Ramona Koval, during a public interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2002, later transcribed and posted online on ABC public radio (Books and Writing). At that time, Pinter repeated some of these details, referring to speculations about his family's Hungarian and Portuguese derivations: "My mother and father were born in England, by the way, in about 1902 and 1904; so they were here. They were English. . . . they were English-Jewish. My grandparents came from a rather mysterious area which some call Odessa and others call Hungary. I have no idea. My wife is convinced that after a lot of research, and she’s pretty good at research, that my family did actually come from Odessa. And she has pretty good evidence of that. However, I found that in the 1946 Olympics there was a Hungarian sprinter called Pinter. And I also know that—I’ve been told, anyway—one of my aunts believed that we were originally da Pinta in Portugal and that we were thrown out by the Spanish Inquisition. I wasn’t quite sure whether they had a Spanish Inquisition in Portugal, but according to my aunt, they certainly did. [laughter. Portuguese Inquisition. And where they went from the Spanish Inquisition is rather misty, shall we say, so I’m not quite sure . . . Anyway, in short, my background is slightly misty. But my family, nevertheless, was a very stable and conventional Jewish family." (Pintér Pinter is a common Hungarian surname; Pinto, Pinta, and da Pinta are common Portuguese surnames and place names. Pinto and da Pinto also occur in Italian way of Portuguese. Cf. List of most common surnames.) Harold Pinter was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. A "profound influence" on him was his evacuation to Cornwall and Reading from London during 1940 and 1941 before and during The Blitz and facing "the life-and-death intensity of daily experience" (Billington, Life and Work 5-10). Pinter frequently wrote and published poetry as a teenager (and has continued to do so throughout his career). He played Romeo and Macbeth in 1947 and 1948, while still a student at Hackney Downs Grammar School in productions directed by his English tutor, mentor, and friend Joseph Brearley (13-14). More on [ Harold Pinter ]
lg liat foto2 harold. ini org udh pinter hobinya jalan2 ya. gak diajak lagi. huh
CCyrin (Carminia Rinjani) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:08:48 -0000
lg liat foto2 harold. ini org udh pinter hobinya jalan2 ya. gak diajak lagi. huh
RT @JeBibliotheek: Waarom bracht Harold Pinter het geleende 'Murphy' v S. Beckett niet terug naar de Londense bieb? http://bit.ly/8YQ3tT
ritanila (Rita Niland) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:57:51 -0000
RT @JeBibliotheek: Waarom bracht Harold Pinter het geleende 'Murphy' v S. Beckett niet terug naar de Londense bieb? http://bit.ly/8YQ3tT
Waarom bracht Harold Pinter het geleende werk 'Murphy' van Samuel Beckett niet terug naar de Londense bibliotheek? http://bit.ly/8YQ3tT
JeBibliotheek (JeBibliotheek) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:24 -0000
Waarom bracht Harold Pinter het geleende werk 'Murphy' van Samuel Beckett niet terug naar de Londense bibliotheek? http://bit.ly/8YQ3tT
Assisti hj a peça Celebração de Harold Pinter. Figurinos, luz, direção, atores, tudo impecável. Pra quem gosta de teatro absurdo, PERFEITO!
MLtulio (Marco Túlio) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:58:44 -0000
Assisti hj a peça Celebração de Harold Pinter. Figurinos, luz, direção, atores, tudo impecável. Pra quem gosta de teatro absurdo, PERFEITO!
'The Lover' a play by Harold Pinter. Set design by Katie Lockheart, hair & makeup by Stephen Marr. Begins 3rd Feb at The Basement Theatre.
Stephen_Marr (Stephen Marr) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:23:28 -0000
'The Lover' a play by Harold Pinter. Set design by Katie Lockheart, hair & makeup by Stephen Marr. Begins 3rd Feb at The Basement Theatre.
O único texto q escrevi em 2009 (ano pobre) foi um inspirado em Harold Pinter - de nome Investigação do adeus - vou quem sabe gravar em 2010
twitovski (Pablo Mastrangelo) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:46:41 -0000
O único texto q escrevi em 2009 (ano pobre) foi um inspirado em Harold Pinter - de nome Investigação do adeus - vou quem sabe gravar em 2010
BBC News - Pinter Leaves Loud Play - Acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter walked out on a new play after it opened with a burst of extremely loud music.
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Book Reveals Pinter's Betrayal With Bakewell - The playwright Harold Pinter and Joan Bakewell, the television broadcaster once hailed as the thinking man's crumpet, were lying low yesterday after it was disclosed that they had had a long, extra-marital affair... [Electronic Telegraph]
Harold Pinter (1930 - ) - Biography of absurdist playwright Harold Pinter.
Harold Pinter (1930 - ) - Biography of absurdist playwright Harold Pinter, plus links to all of his works currently in print.
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Harold Pinter Quote from The Guardian - Pinter's thoughts on US foreign policy Milosovic
HaroldPinter.Org - The official Harold Pinter website.
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Nobelprize.org - The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 - Information about the winner, British playwright Harold Pinter, including his Nobel lecture (text and video), his biography with a bibliography of his works, interview (text and audio), photo gallery and additional web resources. [English, French, German, Swedish]
Pinter Puts on Play to Help Death Row Writer - A new play designed to draw attention to the plight of a writer on Death Row in Iran is being staged by Harold Pinter in London next Sunday... [Electronic Telegraph]
Police pay £50,000 for a night of Kurdish Drama - The Metropolitan Police has paid more than £50,000 in damages to 11 Kurds arrested by armed officers while they rehearsed a Harold Pinter play involving the use of plastic replica guns... [Electronic Telegraph]
Wikipedia - Harold Pinter - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article about the British playwright, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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