“The year I worked on La Recherche was the best year of my life”. With these words Harold Pinter often remembered the period when he threw himself head over heels in the script of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece. It was the beginning of 1972 when Joseph Losey, who had already worked with the Nobel laureate in
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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wins the prestigious PEN Pinter 2018 prize
The award, launched in 2009 in Pinter’s memory which in the past has been conferred to authors such as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Tom Stoppard, is attributed every year to a writer from England, Ireland or a country belonging to the Commonwealth. As Harold declared is his Nobel acceptance speech, the “award casts an
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Sorry Sir McKellen!
The general public knows him as Gandalf in “Lord of the Rings” and Magneto in the “X-Men” trilogy. In the real world, Sir Ian McKellen, born 1939, is one of the greatest Shakesperean actors alive, with a career spanning 50 years and spent mainly on the stage. McKellen took his first steps in the world
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Harold Pinter and Philip Roth: the happy Seventies
A few days after the death of Philip Roth, an article by Lady Antonia Fraser appeared on “The Times” remembering the friendship between Harold Pinter and the American novelist, author of works such as “American Pastoral” and “Portnoy’s Complaint”. Pinter’s widow defines this a “magical period” . It was the Seventies and Harold Pinter had
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