Harold Pinter and academia concerns

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, CH,

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(1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005

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, at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."''

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"Harold Pinter, Playwright of the Pause, Dies at 78"
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and Dodds. These and other critical appraisals of Pinter's cultural influence, accounts of his death and funeral, and memorial tributes, are listed in Obituaries and related articles.

Academic honours

Among the honours received during his lifetime, Pinter was the recipient of 20 honorary degrees or fellowships conferred by European and American

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, and he was an Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (1970). In 2006 Pinter was elected a "foreign member" of the Department of Language and Literature of the

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. Although, also due to illness, he had been unable to travel to

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in December 2005 to receive his Nobel Prize and to deliver his Nobel Lecture in person, presenting it on videotape instead, Pinter did travel to

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, Italy, in March 2006, to accept the

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; there he was the subject of an international symposium, Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics, curated by his official, authorised biographer, Michael Billington, whose participants included "distinguished" academics from the United States and Europe. He was the subject of two international academic conferences in March and April 2007. Viva Pinter: Hommage à Harold Pinter, Prix Nobel de Littérature 2005, Légion d'Honneur 2007, organised by Professor Brigitte Gauthier of the

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's Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3), in

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, France, focused on connections between Pinter's support for human rights, his dramatic works, his poetry, and his films, hosting various events, including productions, panel discussions, and screenings for students, guests, and the public; it was held from 2 to 21 March 2007, with an international colloquium following from 22 to 24 March 2007."Viva Pinter (Mars 2007)"
, ''VivaPinter.org'' (Mar. 2007), rpt. in ''Sens public: Revue internationale – International Webjournal'' (sens-public.org) ublic Sense: International Review – International Webjournal 5 February 2007,

, 25 April 2009. . (12 pages.) Accessible fro
"Viva Pinter"
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version in French). In conjunction with Pinter's being awarded the honorary degree of

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from the

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, School of English, on 13 April 2007, which he was able to accept in person, there was a three-day academic conference Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Harold Pinter at the University's Workshop Theatre, co-sponsored by The Harold Pinter Society, held from 12 to 14 April. The honorary degree ceremony on the 13th was conducted by

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Lord Melvyn Bragg."Pinter Receives Honorary Degree"
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, 13 April 2007,

, 25 April 2009. Playwright Harold Pinter has been praised for his contribution to English literature as he received an honorary degree at Leeds University."/ref> In the spring of 2008, in absentia, Pinter was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the

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.Harold Pinter at the University of Kragujevac
School of Philology and Arts,

, 2008,

. Retrieved 4 June 2010. On 23 June 2008, he was awarded the honorary degree of

from the

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, in absentia."Cambridge Honorary Degrees 2008"
, ''University of Cambridge'', News and Events,

, 27 February 2008,

, 23 June 2008: "Harold Pinter, playwright, actor and director (Doctor of Letters). ... Honorary Degrees ereconferred at a special Congregation ... held in the Senate House on Monday 23 June." inter did not attend the ceremony due to ill health./ref> On 11 December 2008, the

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reported that Pinter received an honorary degree (an honorary fellowship) from the

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(CSSD), in London, also in absentia, as he "was forced to withdraw from the onorary degree ceremonyevent due to illness.""Degree Honour for Playwright Pinter"
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), 10 December 2008,

, 13 March 2009."Central's 2008 Graduation Ceremony"
, ''

'', News,

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, 12 December 2008,

, 1 January 2009. ress release concerning "Honorary Fellowships for Harold Pinter, Jo Brand and Penny Francis">Jo_Brand.html" ;"title="ress release concerning "Honorary Fellowships for Harold Pinter, Jo Brand">ress release concerning "Honorary Fellowships for Harold Pinter, Jo Brand and Penny Francis."] In October 2008, two months prior to his death on 24 December, Pinter also became honorary president of the

, a constituent college of the

,Alistair Smith
"Pinter Replaces Mandelson as Central President"
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'', thestage.co.uk, 14 October 2008,

, 15 October 2008. and received his 20th honorary award, from that institution, on 10 December 2008, in absentia because of illness.

Harold Pinter Society

In 1986, at an annual convention of the

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(MLA), Steven H. Gale, who became the organisation's first president, brought together several American academic scholars to form The Harold Pinter Society, which later became an Allied Organization of the MLA and an Associated Organization of the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA).Past webpages of The Harold Pinter Society (since updated) detailed this history, which is also published in "Introduction", ''The Pinter Review: Collected Essays: 1999 and 2000'', ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2000) xi–xiii. The Pinter Society is international in membership and scope, according to the masthead of ''The Pinter Review'' and the Society's ''Webpages'' (home page). According to the website of the ''International Pinter Society'', its members are "dedicated to studying, celebrating, and appraising the works of this prolific and frequently enigmatic writer" (home page). As an MLA Allied Organization, it organises "a business meeting, programs in which scholars present papers, and related social events at the MLA annual convention." The home page also lists the officers of the Society: President Ann C. Hall (

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); Vice-President Mark Taylor-Batty (

), who designs and maintains the Society's website; and Treasurer Judith Roof (

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), who edits and distributes its newsletters to an electronic subscribers' mailing list. The most recent newsletters can be downloaded from the Society's website.

''The Pinter Review''

Members of The Harold Pinter Society and individual and institutional subscribers receive ''The Pinter Review'', whose founding co-editors are Francis Gillen (

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) and Steven H. Gale (

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), an academic journal first published in conjunction with the Pinter Society by The

Press in 1987. ''The Pinter Review'' became a collection of ''Annual Essays'' in 1989 and then a biennial book publication of ''Collected Essays'' in 1997 and 1998; it is published in both hardcover and softcover editions. Each issue or volume contains a bibliography of works, productions, and other events by and about Pinter compiled by Bibliographical Editor Susan Hollis Merritt."Contents"
''The Pinter Review'' (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– ), rpt. in ''HaroldPinter.org'', Harold Pinter, 2000–

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, 25 April 2009. (Retyped table of contents from ''The Pinter Review''; some typographical variations.)"Upcoming Events for the Year 2007"
''HaroldPinter.org'', Harold Pinter, 2000–

, 25 April 2009. eriodically updated./ref> The cover of ''The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004'' (published by The University of Tampa Press in 2004) features Pinter's poems "Meeting" (August 2002) and "After Lunch" (September 2002), which, along with some of his other recent poetry, are both posted on his official website."Contents"
''The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004'' (Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004), rpt. in ''HaroldPinter.org'', Harold Pinter, 2000–

, 25 April 2009.Harold Pinter
"Meeting"
in "Poetry: Harold Pinter's Recent Poetry" (section), ''HaroldPinter.org'', Harold Pinter, 2000–

, 25 April 2009.Harold Pinter
"After Lunch"
in "Poetry: Harold Pinter's Recent Poetry", ''HaroldPinter.org'', Harold Pinter, 2000–

, 25 April 2009. ''The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008'', a special "celebratory" volume edited by Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale, was published by The University of Tampa Press in 2008. Gillen updated his introduction with an "Editor's Note" to account for Pinter's death, which occurred on 24 December 2008, "While this volume was going to press" (xi). Consisting of 347 pages, this special volume is "dedicated to Harold Pinter—in celebration" and to the memory of Gillen's late wife, Marie C. Gillen. Among its contributions, it includes: the "Presentation Speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature", by Per Wäsberg (3–5); Pinter's 2005 Nobel Lecture "Art, Truth and Politics" (6–17); and his May 2006 dramatic sketch " Apart from That" (18–19). The softcover edition and the dust jacket of the hardcover edition feature a photograph of "p. 12" of Pinter's handwritten manuscript of his 2005 Nobel Lecture. The volume's first page features the poem "Grandpa", written by Pinter's step-grandson Simon Soros between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2008, after Pinter's death (Driscoll);""After Harold Pinter's death, his grandson (Simon Soros) celebrated the playwright with a rap. … Simon began his offering, which is being considered for publication in the scholarly American journal The Pinter Review, on the way home from hospital. … He finished the second stanza of the poem while the rest of the family attended Christmas mass. … The poem reveals a surprisingly tender side to the otherwise prickly and opinionated auteur. … Simon's creation touchingly reveals how fully the playwright had been absorbed into the sprawling

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clan after he became stepfather to her six children in 1980." and the second page (opposite) features the poem "To My Wife", written by Pinter for Antonia Fraser in June 2004. The "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2002–2004" (262–343), compiled by Susan Hollis Merritt, includes a "''Special Supplement on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 2005 – May 2006''."

Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter

The

's Workshop Theatre hosted Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter, organised by Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies Mark Taylor-Batty, for the Harold Pinter Society. From 12 to 14 April 2007, the conferees celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first production of Harold Pinter's first play, ''

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''. On 13 April Pinter was awarded the honorary degree of

from the School of English by University Chancellor

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."Artist and Citizen: 50 Years of Performing Pinter: Papers"
Workshop Theatre, School of English,

, 2007–2008, ''

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, 25 April 2009. [The updated full conference site is no longer accessible on the

server (leeds.ac.uk).]"Pinter Honoured for a Lifetime's Contribution to the Arts"
, ''leeds.ac.uk'',

, 13 April 2007,

, 15 September 2007. ress release./ref> Invited guests included: Harold Pinter,

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, reprising his original role as Mr. Kidd in a revival of ''

'' and his performance as the Man in ''

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'' (1980); Michael Billington, leading a roundtable discussion on "Working with Pinter" with composer James Clarke, visiting playwright in residence

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, and Pinter directors Katie Read and

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; and plenary speakers Steven H. Gale and Susan Hollis Merritt. The conference poster features a photograph of a portrait of Harold Pinter by artist Amy Shuckburgh. The portrait ("pastel and acrylic on wood, 2006") was on display at the Workshop Theatre during the conference, displayed later at

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, during Harry Burton's production of ''

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 ...

'', and also "reproduced in the programmes for

; the touring production of

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;

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at the

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; and

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 ...

at the National Theatre, London.""Harold Pinter: Portrait and Rehearsal Studies by Amy Shuckburgh"
, '' nationaltheatre.org.uk'', National Theatre, 2007,

, 24 April 2009. Following the honorary degree ceremony, on the evening of 13 April 2007, the Free Theatre, of

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, where several of its members have been censored, imprisoned, and "under attack" by the authorities, performed their "collage" of Pinter's work ''Being Harold Pinter'', introduced by "their patron"

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, receiving strong notices from Billington and his colleagues; Pinter participated in the post-performance discussion with the company through a Belarusian-English interpreter. Michael Billington
"The Importance of Being Pinter"
''

'', Theatre Blog,

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, 16 April 2007,

, 15 October 2008.Alfred Hickling
"Being Harold Pinter"
''

'', Theatre Blog, 16 April 2007,

, 16 April 2007,

, 15 October 2008.Nikita Yarin
"Harold Pinter Meets Free Theatre in Leeds"
''dramaturg.org'', News,

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, 2 May 2007,

, 15 October 2008. After Pinter added his support to recommendations by

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, and

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, the

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invited the

to become a member, waiving the membership fee."ETC Members: Svobodnyi Teatr / Le Théâtre libre de Minsk"
''

'', etc-cte.org, 15 September 2007,

, 15 September 2007. ress release."Presentation of the European Theatre Prizes in Thessaloniki"
''dramaturg.org'', News,

, 15 September 2007,

, 15 September 2007. ress release./ref>

The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing

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, inaugurated its Pinter Centre in June 2003, installing Harold Pinter as its honorary president."Welcome to the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing"
''Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing'',

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, 2009,

, 25 April 2009. Directed by Professor of Drama Robert Gordon, it is "an interdisciplinary research centre, involving principally the Departments of English & Comparative Literature and of Drama, the latter organising and hosting the Centre, and with links in Media and Communications, Music, PACE and the Digital Studios." Consistent with "Pinter's keen awareness of the centrality of political issues", according to its mission statement, the Pinter Centre "is particularly committed to looking at

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and

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literature and performance, and the ways in which contemporary creativity is forging new forms that respond to the cultural diversity of the world in which we live. It also has a strong interest in questions of gender, and writing and performing the body." The section on the Pinter Centre in "Introducing the Department of Drama", part of a document on "Drama" published by Goldsmiths, observes that "The Department of Drama founded the Pinter Centre in 2003 as an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to performance research"; after it "widened its remit to embrace both performance and writing", the Pinter Centre was renamed to include Creative Writing, "becoming the focus for the many different writing courses and research activities concerned with writing and

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within Goldsmiths.""Drama"
,

, 2009,

, 25 April 2005. Among its previous conferences and symposia, the Pinter Centre hosted "an international conference" on

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: Collaborator and Auteur, in 2005, and, Ravenhill 10, "a major conference to celebrate 10 years of work by the playwright

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, in November 2006."Ravenhill 10: 10 – 11/12 November 2006"
, ''The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing'',

, 2006,

, 25 April 2009. The Pinter Centre's official website (as periodically updated) provides news and a schedule of its upcoming events; information about its collaborative research project "Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial era"; ''The Pinter Centre Blog'' ("a resource for anyone interested in the work and influence of Harold Pinter, post-colonial writing and performance, life writing and the future of the fractured narrative", the focus of its Beyond the Linear Narrative project); "In Memoriam: Harold Pinter"; the "Department of Drama" at Goldsmiths; and related links.

''Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History''

''Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History'', compiled by William Baker and John C. Ross, was published by the

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and Oak Knoll Press in 2005. As a result of Pinter's winning the 2005

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, according to its publisher, the book, which "provides a comprehensive account of the print-published writings, and texts in other media, which he has wholly or partly authored", became an academic library best-seller."Oak Knoll Press Bestsellers" 37; Oak Knoll Press, "News Release! Delaware Publisher Hits Nobel Gold!", press release accompanying review copies of the book (2005). Susan Hollis Merritt provides an intensive analysis of the book in ''The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume'' (238–60; dust jacket).

The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library

The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library is the literary

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of Harold Pinter, which Pinter had first placed "on permanent loan" in the

in September 1993See Merritt, "The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library"; Gale and Hudgins; and Baker and Ross. and which became a permanent acquisition in December 2007.Mark Brown
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, 10 January 2009.Jennifer Howard
"British Library Acquires Pinter Papers"
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, 10 January 2009. On 11 December 2007 the

announced that it had purchased Pinter's literary archive for £1.1 million (approx. $2.24 million), augmenting its current "Harold Pinter Archive" of 80 boxes ("Loan 110 A"). It comprises "over one hundred and fifty boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programmes, and emails", constituting "an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars of Pinter's work for stage, cinema, and poetry." The work of cataloguing the full archive, a process documented in the BL's official ''Harold Pinter Archive Blog'', was completed in December 2008 (before Pinter's death on the 24th), the description of its contents was uploaded to the BL ''Additional Manuscripts Online Catalogue'' on 2 February 2009, and then the archive was re-opened to qualified researchers and scholars.

Pinter's attitudes toward academic analysis of his work

Pinter satirises academics or intellectual "distance" in several of his plays, beginning with his character Edward, a scholarly writer, in ''

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'' (1959) and continuing with Teddy, an English philosophy professor in an American university who refuses to become "lost in it", in ''

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'' (1965), and Devlin, an English academic, in '' Ashes to Ashes'' (1996).For discussion of Harold Pinter's perspectives on "scholars' use of language and discourses in academic analysis", see Mark Taylor-Batty, "Fling Open Door and Let Pinter's Pause Be Heard", ''

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Works cited

;Bibliographical resources *Baker, William, and John C. Ross, comps. ''Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History''. London: The

and New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll P, 2005. (10). (13). Print. ("Oak Knoll Press Bestsellers", . Oak Knoll Press, 2007.

. 2 October 2007.) * The Swedish Academy
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version; additional

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"Publications": "Works By" and "Works About" Pinter
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"Harold Pinter Bibliography"
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, 2004. 242–300. *–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2002–2004, With a Special Supplement on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 2005 – May 2006." in ''The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008''. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2008. 261–343. *
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Press, 1987–present). Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. ''HaroldPinter.org''. Harold Pinter, 2000–

Accessed 3 January 2009. able of contents of past issues, as re-typed on index Webpage; occasional typographical variations.*''The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005–2008''. Ed. Francis Gillen with Steven H. Gale. Tampa:

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Harold Pinter Archive Blog

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s on Cataloguing the Pinter Archive''. BL, London, 17 March 2008 – the present. Accessed 11 March 2009. osted for the British Library (BL) by Typepad. Provides updates about the cataloguing process by Pinter Archive cataloguer Kate O'Brien and the other BL curators, including Jamie Andrews, director of Modern Literary Manuscripts, where the Archive is housed.]
"Manuscripts: Recent Acquisitions: The Pinter Archive"
BL, London, 2007. Accessed 11 March 2009. Information about major new manuscript and archive acquisitions. Recent acquisitions include the Ted Hughes and Harold Pinter archives and the Dering Roll … The archive of Britain's leading playwright and writer, the 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, has been acquired by the British Library. It comprises over 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, programmes, and emails offers an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars of Pinter's work for stage, cinema, and poetry." (Includes hyperlinks to the

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, which funded the acquisition, and The UK Literary Heritage Working Group.)] ;Obituaries and memorials *Adams, Stephen.
"Harold Pinter Directs His Own Funeral"
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. 6 January 2009. ("His plays were masterpieces of artistic control. And even at his own funeral Harold Pinter made sure he exerted a director's influence.") * Billington, Michael
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. 14 March 2009. *Driscoll, Margarette
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External links

"Harold Pinter"
– Biography at ''HaroldPinter.org'': ''The Official Website of the International Playwright Harold Pinter'' (lists Pinter's various "Awards" and "Honorary degrees" hrough 2007; periodically updated.
Harold Pinter Society"Links – Libraries and Academia"
at ''HaroldPinter.org''.
The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing

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