Press Conference

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter’s Press Conference once again reaffirms Pinter’s place at the very pinnacle of the literary and dramatic worlds.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571216079
Date Published
18.03.2002
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Summary

Harold Pinter can sketch a world in a few lines which reveal the power of his vision focussed on the horrors that have been and that are to come.

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Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime’s achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of…

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