At PinterMonAmour we usually start the week with a poem. We are opening this week of snow and Christmas lights with the poetic sense of an encounter: that with the person who brought the essence of Pinter to Italy, of his works, his silences, the musicality of which only a few people would have been
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Pinter in Japan
In the Land of the Rising Sun Harold Pinter’s works are rarely performed. It could be because he is so Pinteresque, because of his peculiarity in portraying human existence through dialogues full of silence and ambiguity which can disorient and worry the Japanese spectator who is little accustomed to the “theatre of the absurd”. But
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Harold Pinter in Turin
“He moved us with his cutting words, he made us smile and he made us laugh, his political analyses punched us straight in the gut taking no short cuts.” This is what journalist Sara Strippoli wrote about Harold Pinter in the “la Repubblica” newspaper on March 13th 2006. Pinter had just been awarded the Nobel
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Lady Antonia Fraser
The death of Harold Pinter was announced by Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham on Christmas Day 2008. She did so with a letter to The Guardian. Just a few words, expressing the privilege of having lived with the great English playwright for over 35 years. Better known as Lady Antonia Fraser, due to the surname
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Pinter and mountain language
An open supporter of civil rights, always on the side of the oppressed and a strenuous defender of human rights, in 1985 Pinter set out on a mission in Turkey with the famous director and playwright Arthur Miller.
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Michael Longley shares the PEN Pinter Prize with Mahvash Sabet
On 10th October the Iranian teacher and poet received the International Writer of Courage Award 2017
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Camilleri and that slight ache
An eclectic author, Harold Pinter also wrote for radio.
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The remains of Pinter
It was all the news a few days ago. British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature
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Pinter in rhyme
Pinter was a precocious poet. He started writing in verse at the age of 12.
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Ashes to ashes…
“…. he confessed that he was horrified by the direction (of Old Times by Luchino Visconti). The only thing he appreciated about it was me.”
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