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'''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 (play)|The Room]]'' (written 1957; first performance 15 May 1957)
*''[[The Birthday Party (play)|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 (play)|A Night Out]]'' (written 1959; first performance 1 March 1960)
*''[[The Caretaker (play)|The Caretaker]]'' (written 1959; first performance 27 April 1960)
*''[[Night School (play)|Night School]]'' (written 1960; first performance 21 July 1960)
*''[[The Dwarfs (play)|The Dwarfs]]'' (written 1960; first performance 2 December 1960)
*''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]'' (written 1961; first performance 11 May 1961)
*''[[The Lover (play)|The Lover]]'' (written 1962; first performance 28 March 1963)
*''[[Tea Party (play)|Tea Party]]'' (written 1964; first performance 25 March 1965)
*''[[The Homecoming]]'' (written 1964; first performance 3 June 1965)
*''[[The Basement (play)|The Basement]]'' (written 1966; first performance 28 February 1967)
*''[[Landscape (play)|Landscape]]'' (written 1967; first performance 25 April 1968)
*''[[Silence (1969 play)|Silence]]'' (written 1968; first performance 2 July 1969)
*''[[Night (sketch)|Night]]'' (written 1969; first performance 9 April 1969)
*''[[Old Times]]'' (written 1970; first performance 1 June 1971)
*''[[Monologue (play)|Monologue]]'' (written 1972; first performance 10 April 1973)
*''[[No Man's Land (play)|No Man's Land]]'' (written 1974; first performance 23 April 1975)
*''[[Betrayal (play)|Betrayal]]'' (written 1978; first performance 15 November 1978)
*''[[Family Voices]]'' (written 1980; first performance 22 January 1981)
*''[[Victoria Station (play)|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 (Pinter play)|One for the Road]]'' (written 1984; first performance 13 March 1984)
*''[[Mountain Language]]'' (written 1988; first performance 20 October 1988)
*''[[The New World Order (play)|The New World Order]]'' (written 1991; first performance 19 July 1991)<ref>''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 (play)|Death and the Maiden]]'' by [[Ariel Dorfman]] at the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]] Upstairs in London, in July 1991, which went on to Washington, D.C.; its production [http://www.haroldpinter.org/plays/frn_newworldorder_us91.shtml 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, [http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&res=9D0CEFDD103FF932A05754C0A967958260&oref=slogin "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.</ref>
*''[[Party Time (play)|Party Time]]'' (written 1991; first performance 31 October 1991)
*''[[Moonlight (play)|Moonlight]]'' (written 1993; first performance 7 September 1993)
*''[[Ashes to Ashes (play)|Ashes to Ashes]]'' (written 1996; first performance 12 September 1996)
*''[[Celebration (play)|Celebration]]'' (written 1999; first performance 16 March 2000)
*''[[Remembrance of Things Past (play)|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<ref>{{IBDB name|name=Harold Pinter|id=6084}}: [http://www.ibdb.com/awardperson.asp?id=6084 "Harold Pinter Awards"].  Pinter was also nominated for the 1969 [[Tony Award]] Best Direction of a Play for his direction of [[Robert Shaw (British actor)|Robert Shaw]]'s ''[[The Man in the Glass Booth]]''.</ref>
*1962 [[Tony Award]] Best Play: ''[[The Caretaker (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 (play)|No Man's Land]]'' (nominee)

==Dramatic sketches==
*''[[The Black and White]]'' (1959)
*''[[Trouble in the Works]]'' (1959)
*''[[The Last to Go (sketch)|The Last to Go]]'' (1959)
*''[[Request Stop]]'' (1959)
*''[[Special Offer]]'' (1959)
*''[[That's Your Trouble]]'' (1959)
*''[[That's All (sketch)|That's All]]'' (1959)
*''[[Interview (sketch)|Interview]]'' (1959)
*''[[Applicant (sketch)|Applicant]]'' (1959)
*''[[Dialogue for Three]]'' (1959)
*''Umbrellas'' (1960)
*''Mac'' (1968)
*''[[Precisely (sketch)|Precisely]]'' (1983)
*"[[God's District (sketch)|God's District]]" (1997) — monologue written for the revue ''Then Again...''<ref>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.</ref>
*''[[Press Conference (sketch)|Press Conference]]'' (2002)
*''[[Apart From That]]'' (2006)

==Radio plays==
*''[[Voices (radio play)|Voices]]'' (2005) — collaboration with composer [[James Clarke (composer)|James Clarke]]<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speechanddrama/voices_pinter.shtml "Voices: Text by Harold Pinter and Music by James Clarke"], ''Through the Night'', [[BBC Radio 3]], 10 Oct. 2005, 9:30–10:15&nbsp;pm (UK), accessed 10 October 2005 (live).  (RealPlayer audio no longer accessible.) Repeated more recently, on 30 December 2006; see [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/radio/wk52/sat_01.shtml BBC press office program information].  Updated 23 April 2007.</ref>

==Screenplays for films==
*''[[The Caretaker (film)|The Caretaker]]'' (1963)
*''[[The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant]]'' (1963)
*''[[The Pumpkin Eater]]'' (1963)
*"[[The Basement (play)#Origin: "The Compartment"|The Compartment]]" (1965) — unpublished screenplay for unproduced film; adapted for stage as ''[[The Basement (play)|The Basement]]'' (1966)
*''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' (1965)
*''[[Accident (1967 film)|Accident]]'' (1966)
*''[[The Birthday Party (1968 film)|The Birthday Party]]'' (1968) — unpublished screenplay adapted by Pinter from his play ''[[The Birthday Party (play)|The Birthday Party]]'' (1957)
*''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1970)
*''[[The Homecoming (film)|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 (play)|Remembrance of Things Past]]''
*''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]'' (1974)
*''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' (1981)
*''[[Betrayal (1983 film)|Betrayal]]'' (1982, 1983)<ref name=releasedate>There are discrepancies between the IMDb release and award dates for this film and those provided in scholarly publications. {{IMDb title|qid=Q3491163|id=tt0085234|title=Betrayal}} 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 Award]]s for "Best Picture" and Pinter for "Writing" in the category "Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium" (Gale 256, 415); cf. [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1183075470019 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.</ref>
*''[[Victory (Harold Pinter screenplay)|Victory]]'' (1982) — published but unproduced
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*''[[Turtle Diary]]'' (1984)
*"[[The Handmaid's Tale (film)#Pinter's screenplay|The Handmaid's Tale]]" (1987) — unpublished credited screenplay commissioned for the 1990 film ''[[The Handmaid's Tale (film)|The Handmaid's Tale]]''
*''[[Reunion (1989 film)|Reunion]]'' (1989)
*''[[Heat of the Day (film)|The Heat of the Day]]'' (1988) — adapted for TV
*''[[The Comfort of Strangers (film)|The Comfort of Strangers]]'' (1989)
*"[[The Remains of the Day (film)#Production|The Remains of the Day]]" (1991) — unpublished and uncredited (at Pinter's request) screenplay commissioned for the 1993 film ''[[The Remains of the Day (film)|The Remains of the Day]]''
*''[[Party Time (film)|Party Time]]'' (1992) — revised and adapted for TV
*''[[The Trial (1993 film)|The Trial]]'' (1993)
*"[[Lolita (1997 film)#Production|Lolita]]" (1994) — unpublished and uncredited screenplay commissioned for the 1997 film ''[[Lolita (1997 film)|Lolita]]''
*''[[The Dreaming Child]]'' (1997) — published but unproduced; adapted from a short story by [[Karen Blixen|Isak Dinesen]]
*"[[The Tragedy of King Lear (screenplay)|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 film)|Sleuth]]'' (2007)

===Awards and nominations for screenwriting===
Source:<ref name=GaleAppB>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).</ref>
*1963 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best British Screenplay: ''[[The Servant (1963 film)|The Servant]]'' (nominee)
*1964 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best British Screenplay: ''[[The Pumpkin Eater]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1966 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best British Screenplay: ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' (nominee)
*1967 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best British Screenplay: ''[[Accident (1967 film)|Accident]]'' (nominee)
*1972 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|Society of Film and Television Arts]] Best Screenplay: ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1972 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best Screenplay: ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1976 [[David di Donatello]] (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: ''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1976 [[Ennio Flaiano]] Award for Screenwriting: ''[[The Last Tycoon (1976 film)|The Last Tycoon]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1981 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best Screenplay: ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' (nominee)
*1981 [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' (nominee)
*1982 [[David di Donatello]] (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' '''(winner)'''
*1982 [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]] for Best Screenplay––Motion Picture: ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' (nominee)
*1983 [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: ''[[Betrayal (1983 film)|Betrayal]]'' (nominee)
*1983 [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Best Adapted Screenplay: ''[[Betrayal (1983 film)|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 (poem)|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<ref>"In recognition of Pinter's lifelong contribution to literature, 'and specifically for his collection of poetry entitled War, published in 2003.'"</ref>

==Speeches==
{{Further|Bibliography for Harold Pinter#Additional essays, letters, and speeches}}
*"[[Art, Truth and Politics]]" (2005) ["[[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel]] Lecture" delivered live via video on 7 Dec. 2005]

==See also==
{{Portal|Literature}}
*[[Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work]]

==Notes==
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==Works cited==
{{Further|Harold Pinter bibliography}}
{{Refbegin}}
: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", {{cite web|url=http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/pdfcatalogues/Cat2007Spring_web.pdf |title=''[http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/pdfcatalogues/Cat2007Spring_web.pdf Spring – Summer 2007 Catalogue]'' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228070818/http://www.oakknoll.com/resources/pdfcatalogues/Cat2007Spring_web.pdf |archive-date=28 February 2008 }}&nbsp;{{small|(9.25&nbsp;MB)}}.  Oak Knoll Press, 2007.  [[World Wide Web|Web]].  2 Oct. 2007.  (Page 37 of 40 pages.)

:[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/bio-bibl.html "Biobibliographical Notes"] and [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-bibl.html "Bibliography"] for "Harold Pinter, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] 2005."  In "[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/bio-bibl.html Bio-bibliography]".  By [[Swedish Academy|The Swedish Academy]]. ''The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005''.  ''nobelprize.org''.  The Swedish Academy and The Nobel Foundation, Oct. 2005.  [[World Wide Web|Web]].  6 Jan. 2009. (English [[HTML]] version.) [Additional [[PDF]] versions accessible in English, French, German, and [[Swedish language|Swedish]] via hyperlinks.]

:''[http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00108.xml 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.  [[World Wide Web|Web]].  5 Apr. 2009.

:[https://web.archive.org/web/20081228191355/http://www.haroldpinter.org/links/links_academia.shtml "Links: Libraries and Academia"] and [http://www.haroldpinter.org/publications/index.shtml "Publications": "Works By" and "Works About" Pinter].  ''haroldpinter.org''.  Harold Pinter, 2000–[2009].  [[World Wide Web|Web]].  18 Apr. 2009.

:Merritt, Susan Hollis, comp.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20090212233827/http://susanhollismerritt.org/_wsn/page2.html "Harold Pinter Bibliography"]. ''SusanHollisMerritt.org''.  Susan Hollis Merritt, 2009.  [[World Wide Web|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.

:''[http://www.haroldpinter.org/pinterreview/index.shtml The Pinter Review]''.  Tampa: U of Tampa P, (1987– ).  Ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale.  ''HaroldPinter.org''.  Harold Pinter, 2000–[2008].  [[World Wide Web|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.<!--The ISBN and ISSN nos. are verified from  the actual volumes; they are printed in the physical copies of these books.  The nos. may not yet be entered in the WorldCat database or other online databases.-->
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==External links==
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{{Main|Harold Pinter#External links}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110613201759/http://www.haroldpinter.org/directing/index.shtml "Directing: Stage, film and TV productions directed by Harold Pinter"] and [http://www.haroldpinter.org/prose/fiction.shtml "Prose – Fiction"] – Sections of ''HaroldPinter.org'': ''The Official Website of International Playwright Harold Pinter''
*''[http://www.thehomecomingonbroadway.com/haroldPinter.php 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)
*''[http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=2991 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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090213232917/http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_remembering_harold_pinter_british_playwright/ 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 [[The Beatles|Beatles]] vs. [[The Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]] debate"
*[http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/autori/harold-pinter/en/ "Harold Pinter": PWF 1999] – From the archive of the [[Prague Writers' Festival]] (PWF)

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