List of works by Harold Pinter

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

The Room (written 1957; first performance 15 May 1957)
The Birthday Party (written 1957; first performance 28 April 1958)
The Dumb Waiter (written 1957; first performance 21 January 1960)
A Slight Ache (written 1958; first performance 29 July 1959)
The Hothouse (written 1958; first performance 24 April 1980)
A Night Out (written 1959; first performance 1 March 1960)
The Caretaker (written 1959; first performance 27 April 1960)
Night School (written 1960; first performance 21 July 1960)
The Dwarfs (written 1960; first performance 2 December 1960)
The Collection (written 1961; first performance 11 May 1961)
The Lover (written 1962; first performance 28 March 1963)
Tea Party (written 1964; first performance 25 March 1965)
The Homecoming (written 1964; first performance 3 June 1965)
The Basement (written 1966; first performance 28 February 1967)
Landscape (written 1967; first performance 25 April 1968)
Silence (written 1968; first performance 2 July 1969)
Night (written 1969; first performance 9 April 1969)
Old Times (written 1970; first performance 1 June 1971)
Monologue (written 1972; first performance 10 April 1973)
No Man's Land (written 1974; first performance 23 April 1975)
Betrayal (written 1978; first performance 15 November 1978)
Family Voices (written 1980; first performance 22 January 1981)
Victoria Station (written 1982; performed with Family Voices in 1982 as part of Other Places)
A Kind of Alaska (written 1982; performed with Family Voices in 1982 as part of Other Places)
One for the Road (written 1984; first performance 13 March 1984)
Mountain Language (written 1988; first performance 20 October 1988)
The New World Order (written 1991; first performance 19 July 1991)^[1]
Party Time (written 1991; first performance 31 October 1991)
Moonlight (written 1993; first performance 7 September 1993)
Ashes to Ashes (written 1996; first performance 12 September 1996)
Celebration (written 1999; first performance 16 March 2000)
Remembrance of Things Past (written 2000; first performance 23 November 2000) — stage adaptation of The Proust Screenplay; a collaboration with Di Trevis

Awards and nominations for plays

Broadway^[2]

1962 Tony Award Best Play: The Caretaker (nominee)
1967 Tony Award Best Play: The Homecoming (winner)
1972 Tony Award Best Play: Old Times (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)
Special Offer (1959)
That's Your Trouble (1959)
That's All (1959)
Interview (1959)
Applicant (1959)
Dialogue for Three (1959)
Umbrellas (1960)
Mac (1968)
Precisely (1983)
"God's District" (1997) — monologue written for the revue Then Again...^[3]
Press Conference (2002)
Apart From That (2006)

Radio plays

Voices (2005) — collaboration with composer James Clarke^[4]

Screenplays for films

The Caretaker (1963)
The Servant (1963)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
"The Compartment" (1965) — unpublished screenplay for unproduced film; adapted for stage as The Basement (1966)
The Quiller Memorandum (1965)
Accident (1966)
The Birthday Party (1968) — unpublished screenplay adapted by Pinter from his play The Birthday Party (1957)
The Go-Between (1970)
The Homecoming (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); cf. Remembrance of Things Past
The Last Tycoon (1974)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Betrayal (1982, 1983)^[5]
Victory (1982) — published but unproduced
Turtle Diary (1984)
"The Handmaid's Tale" (1987) — unpublished credited screenplay commissioned for the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
Reunion (1989)
The Heat of the Day (1988) — adapted for TV
The Comfort of Strangers (1989)
"The Remains of the Day" (1991) — unpublished and uncredited (at Pinter's request) screenplay commissioned for the 1993 film The Remains of the Day
Party Time (1992) — revised and adapted for TV
The Trial (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 Isak Dinesen
"The Tragedy of King Lear" (2000) — unpublished screenplay commissioned by actor Tim Roth for a film to be directed by Roth, but not produced
Sleuth (2007)

Awards and nominations for screenwriting

Source:^[6]

1963 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Servant (nominee)
1964 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Pumpkin Eater (winner)
1966 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Quiller Memorandum (nominee)
1967 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: Accident (nominee)
1972 Society of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay: The Go-Between (winner)
1972 BAFTA Best Screenplay: The Go-Between (winner)
1976 David di Donatello (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: The Last Tycoon (winner)
1976 Ennio Flaiano Award for Screenwriting: The Last Tycoon (winner)
1981 BAFTA Best Screenplay: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
1981 Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
1982 David di Donatello (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: The French Lieutenant's Woman (winner)
1982 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay––Motion Picture: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
1983 Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: Betrayal (nominee)
1983 BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay: Betrayal (nominee)

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 Antonia Fraser. 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. ISBN 0-9555821-1-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-9555821-1-0 (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. "American Football", by Harold Pinter [80].)
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 Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry^[7]

Speeches

"Art, Truth and Politics" (2005) ["Nobel Lecture" delivered live via video on 7 Dec. 2005]

Notes

^ HaroldPinter.org lists this work as a "play", but it is actually a 4-page dramatic sketch; it lasts approximately eight to ten minutes in production. It was first produced as a "curtain raiser" for Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman at the Royal Court Upstairs in London, in July 1991, which went on to Washington, D.C.; its production poster featured on HaroldPinter.org identifies it as a "sketch". "The New World Order" is also identified as a "sketch" in a review of the Royal Court première by Mel Gussow, "Critic's Notebook: On the London Stage, a Feast of Revenge, Menace and Guilt". Online posting. New York Times 31 July 1991. Recent productions and publications do refer to it more generically, as a "play", following the website's "Plays" section.
^ Harold Pinter at the Internet Broadway Database: "Harold Pinter Awards". Pinter was also nominated for the 1969 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play for his direction of Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth.
^ Harold Pinter's official site lists this in the section for "Prose – Fiction," but it was produced as a sketch on stage in a revue, according to Baker and Ross.
^ "Voices: Text by Harold Pinter and Music by James Clarke", Through the Night, BBC Radio 3, 10 Oct. 2005, 9:30–10:15 pm (UK), accessed 10 October 2005 (live). (RealPlayer audio no longer accessible.) Repeated more recently, on 30 December 2006; see BBC press office program information. Updated 23 April 2007.
^ There are discrepancies between the IMDb release and award dates for this film and those provided in scholarly publications. Betrayal at IMDb lists the film's release in New York as "19 February 1983" and its London release date as "October 1983." According to Steven H. Gale, however, in Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003), it was "Released" in both London and New York "in 1982" (256, 415). It was distributed by Twentieth-Century Fox 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 Academy Awards for "Best Picture" and Pinter for "Writing" in the category "Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium" (Gale 256, 415); cf. Academy Awards Database, accessed 28 June 2007. The IMDb appears to be a year off in listing its Academy Award and BAFTA nominations as 1984 instead of 1983.
^ Steven 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).
^ "In recognition of Pinter's lifelong contribution to literature, 'and specifically for his collection of poetry entitled War, published in 2003.'"

Works cited

Baker, William, and John C. Ross, comps. Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History. London: The British Library and New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll P, 2005. ISBN 1-58456-156-4 (10). ISBN 978-1-58456-156-9 (13). Print. "Oak Knoll Press Bestsellers", "Oak Knoll Summer 2007 Catalogue]" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2008. (9.25 MB). Oak Knoll Press, 2007. Web. 2 Oct. 2007. (Page 37 of 40 pages.)

"Biobibliographical Notes" and "Bibliography" for "Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature 2005." In "Bio-bibliography". By The Swedish Academy. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005. nobelprize.org. The Swedish Academy and The Nobel Foundation, Oct. 2005. Web. 6 Jan. 2009. (English HTML version.) [Additional PDF versions accessible in English, French, German, and Swedish via hyperlinks.]

Harold Pinter: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (1960–1980). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1999. Web. 5 Apr. 2009.

"Links: Libraries and Academia" and "Publications": "Works By" and "Works About" Pinter. haroldpinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009]. Web. 18 Apr. 2009.

Merritt, Susan Hollis, comp. "Harold Pinter Bibliography". SusanHollisMerritt.org. Susan Hollis Merritt, 2009. Web. 18 Apr. 2009. (Webpage pertaining to the "Harold Pinter Bibliography" published in The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 1987– .)

–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2000–2002." The Pinter Review: Collected Essays 2003 and 2004. Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P, 2004. 242–300. Print.

–––. "Harold Pinter Bibliography: 2002–2004 With a Special Supplement on the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, October 2005 – May 2006." 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. Print.

The Pinter Review. Tampa: U of Tampa P, (1987– ). Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. HaroldPinter.org. Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008]. Web. 3 Jan. 2009. [Table of contents of past issues, retyped 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: U of Tampa P, 2008. ISBN 978-1-879852-19-8 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-879852-20-4 (softcover). ISSN 0895-9706. Print.

External links

"Directing: Stage, film and TV productions directed by Harold Pinter" and "Prose – Fiction" – Sections of HaroldPinter.org: The Official Website of International Playwright Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter – Graphic feature of covers, programs, and posters of selected plays and films (with production information) for the Cort Theatre's 2007–2008 40th-anniversary Broadway revival of The Homecoming (accessible from home page menu)
Harold Pinter (1930–2008) at The Poetry Archive – Includes audio recording by Harold Pinter of "It Is Here", "Later", and "Episode" made on 16 December 2002 at The Audio Workshop, London, as produced by Richard Carrington
Harold Pinter's reading of a selection of his prose fiction and poems, 92nd Street Y New York City, 12 November 1964 – Hyperlinked in "92Y Podcast: Remembering Harold Pinter, British Playwright", 25 December 2008 (MP3; 65:41); includes: "Tea Party / New Year in the Midlands / A Glass at Midnight / You in the Night / The Drama in April / The Anesthetist’s Pen / Jig / Episode / Afternoon / The Error of Alarm / The Table / The Black and White (prose monologue) … / The Examination—followed by a Q&A where he talks about literary influences, point of view, his opinion of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the classic Beatles vs. Rolling Stones debate"
"Harold Pinter": PWF 1999 – From the archive of the Prague Writers' Festival (PWF)

[1] HaroldPinter.org lists this work as a "play", but it is actually a 4-page dramatic sketch; it lasts approximately eight to ten minutes in production. It was first produced as a "curtain raiser" for Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman at the Royal Court Upstairs in London, in July 1991, which went on to Washington, D.C.; its production poster featured on HaroldPinter.org identifies it as a "sketch". "The New World Order" is also identified as a "sketch" in a review of the Royal Court première by Mel Gussow, "Critic's Notebook: On the London Stage, a Feast of Revenge, Menace and Guilt". Online posting. New York Times 31 July 1991. Recent productions and publications do refer to it more generically, as a "play", following the website's "Plays" section.

[2] Harold Pinter at the Internet Broadway Database: "Harold Pinter Awards". Pinter was also nominated for the 1969 Tony Award Best Direction of a Play for his direction of Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth.

[3] Harold Pinter's official site lists this in the section for "Prose – Fiction," but it was produced as a sketch on stage in a revue, according to Baker and Ross.

[4] "Voices: Text by Harold Pinter and Music by James Clarke", Through the Night, BBC Radio 3, 10 Oct. 2005, 9:30–10:15 pm (UK), accessed 10 October 2005 (live). (RealPlayer audio no longer accessible.) Repeated more recently, on 30 December 2006; see BBC press office program information. Updated 23 April 2007.

[releasedate-5] There are discrepancies between the IMDb release and award dates for this film and those provided in scholarly publications. Betrayal at IMDb lists the film's release in New York as "19 February 1983" and its London release date as "October 1983." According to Steven H. Gale, however, in Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2003), it was "Released" in both London and New York "in 1982" (256, 415). It was distributed by Twentieth-Century Fox 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 Academy Awards for "Best Picture" and Pinter for "Writing" in the category "Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium" (Gale 256, 415); cf. Academy Awards Database, accessed 28 June 2007. The IMDb appears to be a year off in listing its Academy Award and BAFTA nominations as 1984 instead of 1983.

[GaleAppB-6] Steven 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).

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

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v t e Harold Pinter
Plays	The Room (1957) The Birthday Party (1957) The Dumb Waiter (1957) A Slight Ache (1958) The Hothouse (1958) The Caretaker (1959) A Night Out (1959) Night School (1960) The Collection (1961) The Lover (1962) Tea Party (1964) The Homecoming (1964) The Basement (1966) Landscape (1967) Silence (1968) Old Times (1970) No Man's Land (1974) Betrayal (1978) Family Voices (1980) A Kind of Alaska (1982) Victoria Station (1982) One for the Road (1984) Mountain Language (1988) Moonlight (1993) Ashes to Ashes (1996) Celebration (1999) Remembrance of Things Past (2000)
Dramatic sketches	Trouble in the Works (1959) Applicant (1959) Night (1969) Precisely (1983)
Screenplays	A Night Out (1961) The Caretaker (1963) The Servant (1963) The Pumpkin Eater (1964) The Quiller Memorandum (1966) Accident (1967) The Birthday Party (1968) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970) The Go-Between (1971) The Last Tycoon (1976) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Betrayal (1983) Turtle Diary (1984) Reunion (1989) The Comfort of Strangers (1990) The Handmaid's Tale (1990) The Trial (1993) The Dreaming Child (1997) The Tragedy of King Lear (2000) Sleuth (2007)
Related articles	Works Bibliography Characteristics Honours and awards Relationship with academia Harold Pinter Archive Harold Pinter and politics Art, Truth and Politics Pinter's People

v t e Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature
1901–1920	1901: Sully Prudhomme 1902: Theodor Mommsen 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz 1906: Giosuè Carducci 1907: Rudyard Kipling 1908: Rudolf Eucken 1909: Selma Lagerlöf 1910: Paul Heyse 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann 1913: Rabindranath Tagore 1914 1915: Romain Rolland 1916: Verner von Heidenstam 1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan 1918 1919: Carl Spitteler 1920: Knut Hamsun
1921–1940	1921: Anatole France 1922: Jacinto Benavente 1923: W. B. Yeats 1924: Władysław Reymont 1925: George Bernard Shaw 1926: Grazia Deledda 1927: Henri Bergson 1928: Sigrid Undset 1929: Thomas Mann 1930: Sinclair Lewis 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (posthumously) 1932: John Galsworthy 1933: Ivan Bunin 1934: Luigi Pirandello 1935 1936: Eugene O'Neill 1937: Roger Martin du Gard 1938: Pearl S. Buck 1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1940
1941–1960	1941 1942 1943 1944: Johannes V. Jensen 1945: Gabriela Mistral 1946: Hermann Hesse 1947: André Gide 1948: T. S. Eliot 1949: William Faulkner 1950: Bertrand Russell 1951: Pär Lagerkvist 1952: François Mauriac 1953: Winston Churchill 1954: Ernest Hemingway 1955: Halldór Laxness 1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez 1957: Albert Camus 1958: Boris Pasternak 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo 1960: Saint-John Perse
1961–1980	1961: Ivo Andrić 1962: John Steinbeck 1963: Giorgos Seferis 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre (declined award) 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov 1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs 1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias 1968: Yasunari Kawabata 1969: Samuel Beckett 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971: Pablo Neruda 1972: Heinrich Böll 1973: Patrick White 1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson 1975: Eugenio Montale 1976: Saul Bellow 1977: Vicente Aleixandre 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer 1979: Odysseas Elytis 1980: Czesław Miłosz
1981–2000	1981: Elias Canetti 1982: Gabriel García Márquez 1983: William Golding 1984: Jaroslav Seifert 1985: Claude Simon 1986: Wole Soyinka 1987: Joseph Brodsky 1988: Naguib Mahfouz 1989: Camilo José Cela 1990: Octavio Paz 1991: Nadine Gordimer 1992: Derek Walcott 1993: Toni Morrison 1994: Kenzaburō Ōe 1995: Seamus Heaney 1996: Wisława Szymborska 1997: Dario Fo 1998: José Saramago 1999: Günter Grass 2000: Gao Xingjian
2001–2020	2001: V. S. Naipaul 2002: Imre Kertész 2003: J. M. Coetzee 2004: Elfriede Jelinek 2005: Harold Pinter 2006: Orhan Pamuk 2007: Doris Lessing 2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio 2009: Herta Müller 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa 2011: Tomas Tranströmer 2012: Mo Yan 2013: Alice Munro 2014: Patrick Modiano 2015: Svetlana Alexievich 2016: Bob Dylan 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro 2018: Olga Tokarczuk 2019: Peter Handke 2020: Louise Glück
2021–present	2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah 2022: Annie Ernaux 2023: Jon Fosse 2024: Han Kang 2025: to be determined

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