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Informationen zum Autor Michael Billington has been theatre critic of the Guardian since 1971 and of Country Life since 1986. He is the author of biographies of Harold Pinter and Peggy Ashcroft, critical studies of Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn, of a celebration of Ken Dodd, a collection of reviews, One Night Stands , State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 , which won the Theatre Book Prize 2008, and The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present . He has also edited Directors' Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and Stage and Screen Lives selected from the Dictionary of National Biography . He frequently lectures and broadcasts on the arts, teaches drama for the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Professor at King's College, London and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Klappentext Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006. Michael Billington's Harold Pinter biography now brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter . Zusammenfassung Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006.
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Michael Billington's Harold Pinter biography now brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter.
Auteur
Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. In 1995 he won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, awarded for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 1996 he was given the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre. In 2002 he was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature. In 2005 he received the Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry, the Franz Kafka Award (Prague) and the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 2008.
Michael Billington was the Guardian theatre critic from 1971 to 2019. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and television arts programmes. His previous books are on Peggy Ashcroft, Ken Dodd, Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is also the author of The 101 Greatest Plays and State of the Nation.
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Michael Billington brings up to date The Life and Work of Harold Pinter with an additional chapter and plate section covering the years 1996-2006.
Résumé
Michael Billington's engrossing biography examines Pinter's work in the context of his life.
Through extended conversations with Pinter and interviews with his friends and colleagues, Billington creates a portrait of the man as well as the artist, from Pinter's Hackney childhood to his Nobel Prize, discussing his writing for stage and screen, as well as his fiction and poetry, his acting and directing, his political activity, his friendships, his two marriages and his passion for cricket. He emerges as a man of infinite complexity whose imaginative world is shaped by his private character.
This new edition includes a full transcript of the Nobel lecture, as well as an additional chapter written in the aftermath of Harold Pinter's death in December 2008.
'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.'
The Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005
'Enthralling. An open-sesame into Pinter's work . . . A valuable book. And absorbing: I found it virtually unputdownable.' Financial Times
'No reader of this book will doubt that its subject is a man of the highest artistic stature.' Sunday Telegraph