Who is Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.

Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a ke...
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Harold Pinter Poems

• God Bless America
  Here they go again,
  The Yanks in their armoured parade
  Chanting their ballads of joy
  As they gallop across the big world ...
• I Saw Len Hutton In His Prime...
  I saw Len Hutton in his prime
  
  Another time
  ...
• Paris
  The curtain white in folds,
  She walks two steps and turns,
  The curtain still, the light
  Staggers in her eyes....
• Weather Forecast
  The day will get off to a cloudy start.
  It will be quite chilly
  But as the day progresses
  The sun will come out ...
• The Ventriloquists
  I send my voice into your mouth
  You return the compliment
  
  I am the Count of Cannizzaro...

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