Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter      (author, playwright, director, activist, poet)
Born	10 October 1930 Hackney, London, England
Died	24 December 2008 (Age 78) London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death	cancer
Nationality	British
Children	• son with Merchant • six stepchildren with Fraser

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, political activist and poet. He was among the most influential British playwrights of modern times. In 2005 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was dying of cancer and gravely ill at the time of the Nobel Prize Ceremony and could not attend. However, he delivered his lecture via video link and it is a recommended tour-de-force on the evils of US Foreign Policy through the latter part of the 20th Century to the invasion of Iraq.

Pinter's insights into the world of Deep Politics were astute.

 

Documents by Harold Pinter

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Harold Pinter - 2005 Nobel Prize lecture	speech	7 December 2005	US/Efforts to Suppress Democracy since 1945 US/Sponsored Regime-change efforts since 1945 US/Bombing campaigns since 1945 US/Assassinations since 1945 US Foreign Policy since 1945	Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech made by video-link to the ceremony in Norway because of his illness. He was in the terminal stages of cancer. The speech is inspirational in its scathing rejection of Western (especially US) foreign policy objectives and methods.
File:Harold Pinter Nobel Prize address 2005.pdf	speech	2005	US/Foreign policy/Since 1945	A lecture by the late on the occasion of his award of the 2005 Prize for literature. It is notable especially for its scathing indictment of the post-WWII foreign policy of the USA and its incessant interference involving both covert and overt military actions all over the world. Pinter's insights into the world of Deep Politics was acute.

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