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Hanif Kureishi wins the 2010 PEN Pinter prize
Lady Antonia Fraser, who helped judge the prize, stated that: “Hanif Kureishi courageously and irreverently speaks the truth about life in our multicultural world, beyond any platitudes of political correctness. Harold Pinter would have been proud that Hanif was chosen for the prize in his name and that of PEN.”
Links:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/16/hanif-kureishi-pen-harold-pinter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11342598
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8007006/Hanif-Kureishi-awarded-PENPinter-Prize.html
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Pinter, Beckett and Mamet at the Gate
The Gate theatre, Dublin, is presenting a series of plays by Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and David Mamet this autumn. Pinter’s Celebration will run from 5 to 10 November, with Antonia Fraser speaking on the 10th. Click here for further details of the productions on offer.
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Antonia Fraser book signings and talks
Antonia Fraser has a few future engagements at which she will be talking and offering to sign copies of her book on her life with Harold Pinter: Must You Go?
24th September, 6.30pm – Talk & signing
Savile Club in aid of PEN with Lisa Appignanesi
25th September, 8:30pm – 4th Chichester Writing Festival, West Dean College, Sussex Barn Auditorium (garden entrance), in conversation with Kate Mosse
3rd October, 4pm – Daily Telegraph Henley Literary Festival with Max Hastings. www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk
10th October – in conversation with Michael Colgan, Gate Theatre, Dublin
17th October, 2pm – Cheltenham Festival of Literature
1st November, 7pm – Writer’s Room, Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge St., Toronto
3rd November, 7.30pm – Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia
4th November, 7pm - South Court Auditorium, New York Public Library
6th November, 10am – in conversation with Victoria Lautman, UIC Forum, Main Hall AB, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago
8th November, 7pm – Los Angeles Public Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles
9th November, 8pm – City Arts & Lectures Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
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Clive Donner dies
The film director Clive Donner, who worked on Harold Pinter’s first film project – The Caretaker – in 1963, has died this week at the age of 84. Read the obituaries in The Guardian and The New York Times.
Donner’s The Caretaker, starring Donald Pleasance, Alan Bates and Robert Shaw (and featuring a small cameo from Harold himself) is available on DVD (Amazon UK or US) (BFI bookstore UK)
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Pinter in Chinese
A collection of writings by Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize winner and author of over 30 plays, has been translated into Chinese and published by Yilin Press.
More details: http://life.globaltimes.cn/art/2010-09/570282.html
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New Website
Welcome to the Harold Pinter Society Website.
Today, 8 SEPTEMBER 2010, the website is being re-constructed from scratch. Please be patient – content will be uploaded and complete in the next 24 hours. Until then, the site will be incomplete and much information will be missing.
The site will now also be optimised for viewing on mobile devices such as the iPhone.
Thanks
Mark Taylor-Batty
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