"PEN Pinter Prize The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). The award is given to ""a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit who, in the words of Pinter’s Nobel speech ['Art, Truth and Politics'], casts an 'unflinching, unswerving' gaze upon the world and shows"
"Harold Pinter and academia Harold Pinter and academia concerns academic recognition of and scholarship pertaining to Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, at the time of his death considered by many ""the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."" Among the honours received during his lifetime, Pinter was the recipient of 20 honorary degrees or fellowships conferred by European and American academic institutions, and he was an Honorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) (1970). In 2006 Pinter was elected a"
"many US literary critics and professors had never heard of Müller before. This reignited criticism that the committee was too Eurocentric. The 2005 prize went to Harold Pinter ""who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"". The award was delayed for some days, apparently due to Knut Ahnlund's resignation. In turn, this renewed speculation about a ""political element"" existing in the Swedish Academy's awarding of the Prize. Although poor health prevented him from giving his controversial Nobel Lecture, ""Art, Truth and Politics"", in person, he appeared on video, which was simultaneously"
"researchers and scholars. Pinter satirises academics or intellectual ""distance"" in several of his plays, beginning with his character Edward, a scholarly writer, in ""A Slight Ache"" (1959) and continuing with Teddy, an English philosophy professor in an American university who refuses to become ""lost in it"", in ""The Homecoming"" (1965), and Devlin, an English academic, in ""Ashes to Ashes"" (1996). Harold Pinter and academia Harold Pinter and academia concerns academic recognition of and scholarship pertaining to Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (1930–2008), English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, at the time"
"theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue ""Krapp's Last Tape"", for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. Pinter was born on 10 October 1930, in Hackney, east London, the only child of British parents of"
"Henry Woolf Henry Woolf, (born 20 January 1930 in Holborn, London) is a British actor, theatre director and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lives in Canada, and a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, ""The Room"" (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991 until 2001. Born to Jewish parents in London in 1930, Henry Woolf was educated at Hackney Downs School, where he met"
"member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Henry Woolf received the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal on February 17, 2006 Saskatchewan Centennial Medal. Henry Woolf Henry Woolf, (born 20 January 1930 in Holborn, London) is a British actor, theatre director and teacher of acting, drama and theatre who lives in Canada, and a longtime friend and collaborator of 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, having stimulated Pinter to write his first play, ""The Room"" (1957), in 1956. Woolf served as a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan from 1983 to 1997 and as artistic director of Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan from 1991"
"Harold Pinter and politics Harold Pinter and politics concerns the political views, civic engagement, and political activism of British playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008), the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In 1948–49, when he was 18, Pinter opposed the politics of the Cold War, leading to his decision to become a conscientious objector and to refuse to comply with National Service. But he was not a pacifist. He told Billington and others that, if he had been old enough at the time, he would have fought against the Nazis in World War II (""Harold Pinter"" 21–24, 92, & 286). He seemed"
"the 2006 Hawthornden Prize. It won the 2005 Guardian First Book Award. Recently many secondary schools across the UK have included it in their higher education academic syllabus for English language. A television dramatisation with the same name, starring Tom Hardy as Shorter and Benedict Cumberbatch as Masters was co-produced by the BBC and HBO in 2007. Tom Hardy was nominated for a 2008 BAFTA for his portrayal of Stuart Shorter. Additionally, Laurence Hobbs was cast in the role of Smithy. A stage production premiered in 2013 adapted by double BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne produced by HighTide Festival Theatre and"
"Roy Williams (playwright) Roy Samuel Williams, (born 5 January 1968), is an English playwright. Williams has many awards including the George Devine Award for ""Lift Off"", the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for his play ""Clubland"", the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama for ""Offside"" and 2004 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. Most recently his play ""Sucker Punch"" was nominated for the ""Evening Standard"" Award for Best New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2011. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday"
"Athol Fugard Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel ""Tsotsi"", directed by Gavin Hood. Fugard was an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. For the academic year 2000–2001, he was the IU Class of 1963 Wells Scholar Professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. He"
"Ryan Craig (playwright) Ryan Craig (January 9, 1972 - ) is a British playwright, screen, television and radio writer whose plays usually involve both ethical and social matters. He is best-known for his plays ""What We Did To Weinstein"" (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, 2005) which earned Craig a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Awards; ""The Glass Room"" (Hampstead Theatre, 2006), which deals with Holocaust denial; the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's ""Our Class"" (2009) and ""The Holy"" ""Rosenbergs"" (2011), both at the National Theatre. His most recent play is the semi-autobiographical ""Filthy Business"" (Hampstead Theatre, London, 2017)."
"In 2005, the Icelandic National Theatre premiered a play by Ólafur Haukur Símonarson, titled ""Halldór í Hollywood"" (""Halldór in Hollywood"") about the author's time spent in the United States in the 1920s. Works by Laxness Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer. He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway."
"2005, and the winner currently receives a A$5,000 prize from the University of Technology, Sydney. The first recipient was Denise Young, and the most recent recipient was Michelle Cahill for her novel, ""Letter to Pessoa"". The award renamed in 2008 to honour Glenda Adams, the late Australian novelist. The Play Award, established in 1983, is given to a play or musical which has been produced in Australia. The winner is chosen based purely on the merit of the written text, and they currently receive a A$30,000 prize. The award was first given to playwright Nicholas Enright and composer Terence Clarke"
"play as a one-woman show with British actress Ruth Sheard in 2005. ""4.48 Psychosis"" divides opinion between critics and audiences and due to the subject matter of the play and Kane's subsequent suicide, some critics have had difficulty in distinguishing the play from the reality of Kane's life. Michael Billington of ""The Guardian"" newspaper asked, ""How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note?"" Charles Spencer of the ""Telegraph"" said ""it is impossible not to view it as a deeply personal howl of pain"" David Greig considered the play to be ""perhaps uniquely painful in that"
"Five Kinds of Silence Five Kinds of Silence is an in-yer-face theatre play by the playwright Shelagh Stephenson, published in 2004. It tells the story of a family living under the power of the vicious Billy, who physically, emotionally, and sexually abuses his wife, Mary, and children; Susan and Janet. The stage play is adapted from the radio production of the same name. The stage version of the play was first performed at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, on 31 May 2000, starring Lizzy McInnery, Gina McKee, Tim Pigott-Smith, Linda Bassett, Dione Inman and Gary Whitaker. The play won the 1996"
"and third-place winners. The awards' current definition of a classical play is one written before 1918. The awards for the previous year's performances are presented the following year. The 2017 awards were presented on 18 May 2018, and the winner was Natalie Simpson. The ""Sunday Times"" chief drama critic John Peter saw and reviewed Ian Charleson's extraordinary ""Hamlet"" at the National Theatre in late 1989. Unbeknownst to the audience, Charleson performed it during the last weeks of his life while he was seriously ill with AIDS, and died in January 1990 at the age of 40 eight weeks after his"
"2006 by Enitharmon Press. He has written a biography of the cricketer WG Grace: ""W.G.Grace: A Life"" (Faber, 1998). Simon Rae Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play ""Grass"" won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002. Rae presented Radio 4's ""Poetry Please"" for five years and wrote a regular topical"
"for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Joanna Laurens Joanna Laurens (born 21 April 1978) is an English playwright. She read English at Queen's University Belfast before completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2003. Laurens' first play, ""The Three Birds"" (2000), opened at the Gate Theatre, London. This was followed by ""Five Gold Rings"" (2003), at the Almeida Theatre, London, and ""Poor Beck"" (2004), at The Other Place in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Award include: Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Most Promising Playwright (2000); ""Time Out"" award for Most Outstanding New"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career 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"
"to support his 'Alienation' effect. The influence of the non-western theatre on theatrical culture in the 20th-century has often been crucial to new developments. However, the period during and after the advent of post-colonial theory in the 1960s and 1970s, has led to a tremendous amount of development in theatre practice all over the world. This has created, for the first time, a truly global theatre. Significant figures and some landmark theories and movements of the period include: During the twentieth-century the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the following who were primarily dramatists: The 2005 Nobel Prize in"
"up to a timely, stimulating, colorfully staged -- and, yes, hopeful -- ninety minutes. If you'll forgive the indulgence in word play, it's a tour-de-farce elevated to heavenly heights by tour-de-farceur Kristine Nielsen."" Miss Witherspoon Miss Witherspoon is a play written by Christopher Durang. It was one of three finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, a black comedy, was named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2005 by ""Time Magazine"" and ""Newsday"". The play takes place in the recent past (1998) and the foreseeable future (2005 and beyond), on Earth, and ""not earth."" A woman"
"into the English language. ""The play captures something universal in actions and reactions of the working class."" His receipt of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature marked the ""international acknowledgment of Fo as a major figure in twentieth-century world theatre"". The Swedish Academy praised Fo as a writer ""who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden"". He owned and operated a theatre company. Fo was an atheist. An eldest child, Fo was born at Sangiano, in Lombardy's Province of Varese, near the eastern shore of Lago Maggiore. His younger brother"
"Edward Bond Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them ""Saved"" (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama. Edward Bond was born on 18 July 1934 into a lower-working-class family in"
"and Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), Billington is also the official authorised biographer of 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008) which first appeared in 1996. In March 2007 Faber and Faber published Billington's book ""State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945"", which won the 2007 annual Theatre Book Prize from The Society for Theatre Research, presented to Billington by Sir Donald Sinden on 1 April 2008. Billington has spoken about the book at various venues, including the Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick, and has reviewed his reviews. Following Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, ""The"
"musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein - the UK premiere of ""State Fair"" which transferred to the West End, and the European premiere of ""Me and Juliet"". The Finborough Theatre has won the Pearson Award bursary for playwrights nine times for Chris Lee in 2000, Laura Wade in 2005, James Graham in 2006, Al Smith in 2007, Anders Lustgarten in 2009, Simon Vinnicombe in 2010, Dawn King in 2011, Shamser Sinha in 2013 and Chris Thompson in 2014 – as well as the Pearson Award for Best Play for Laura Wade in 2005 and - under its new name - the"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"2007. Hitchens, Christopher. ""Opinion: The Sinister Mediocrity of Harold Pinter"". ""Wall Street Jour."" 17 October 2005, A18. Print. Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company), 17 October 2005. Web. 7 May 2009. [Electronic ed.; printable version ""for personal, non-commercial use only.""] Howard, Jennifer. ""Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Harold Pinter, British Playwright Widely Studied in Academe"". ""Chronicle of Higher Education"". Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 October 2006. Web. 2 October 2007. Hudgins, Christopher C. ""The Nobel Prize Festivities: Stockholm, December 2005. A Joyous Report."" ""The Pinter Review: Nobel Prize/Europe Theatre Prize Volume: 2005 – 2008"". Ed. Francis Gillen with"
"Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005 for Best Set Design for Giles Cadle and Best Lighting Design for Paule Constable. His Dark Materials (play) His Dark Materials is a play written by British playwright Nicholas Wright, adapted from the Philip Pullman fantasy novel trilogy of the same title. The production premiered in the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Theatre, London, in 2003. Due to the complications in staging a piece containing the narrative of three books, the play was performed in two parts in alternate performances. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. The play follows the same plot as the"
"down neatly into an intellectually and erotically charged dialogue on the nature of the mind"", yet felt that ""Lodge cannot quite eradicate the sense that some of the cerebral jousting has a more natural home in a novel than on stage"". ""Secret Thoughts"" won Best New Play at the Manchester Theatre Awards, being hailed as a ""bracing and ambitious production that wowed everyone who saw it"". David Lodge (author) David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and literary critic. A professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987, he is known for"
"and Christina Kirk. It is notably one of two plays to win the Pulitzer, Tony, and Olivier, the other being David Mamet's drama ""Glengarry Glen Ross"". Norris' verbally dexterous and fast-paced dramas are reminiscent of Edward Albee's comically tragic plays, which contemplate the complexities of the American psyche and the family dynamic. Bruce Norris (playwright) Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play ""Clybourne Park"" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1982 with a degree in theatre, Norris set"
"She moved back to her home town of Chichester in 1998 when she became the first female executive director of Chichester Festival Theatre. Kate Mosse Katharine Louise Mosse (born 20 October 1961), or Kate Mosse, is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel ""Labyrinth"", which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor. Their aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was"
"in 2005 for Drowning Anna. Her novel ""Blue"" was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and sold over 15,000 copies. Sue Mayfield Sue Mayfield was born in 1963 in England. She is a writer of fiction for children and young adults. Many of her works are about young people overcoming difficulties and the themes that are in her works are loss, friendship, and forgiveness. Previously a teacher, Mayfield has been regularly visiting several schools since 1990 to read her works and lead writing workshops and has also taught creative writing to adults. She facilitates others peoples' writing in healthcare settings and"