List of awards and honours received by Harold Pinter

Honours and awards to Harold Pinter lists (in chronological order) honours, awards, prizes, and honorary degrees received by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930–2008), which often acknowledge his international importance and his reach beyond national and regional boundaries.

Background Pinter declined a British knighthood in 1996, when it was offered to him on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II by British Prime Minister John Major, then leader of the Conservative Party.Michael White, "Queen's Birthday Honours: Arise Sir Mick, But Pinter Takes Surprise Top Honour", The Guardian 15 June 2002, accessed 16 December 2007. Despite his declining it, many in the media (both in the UK and elsewhere) still refer erroneously to Pinter as "Sir Harold Pinter"."Library Buys Harold Pinter Archive for £1m", The Daily Telegraph (London) 11 December 2007, accessed 16 December 2007, announcing the British Library's acquisition of his literary archive.Charlie Rose, in "A Conversation with Actor Ian McShane" (Max) , Charlie Rose, PBS, broadcast of 24 March 2008, accessed 25 March 2008. ("A conversation with actor Ian McShane about his role in the 40th Anniversary Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming.")

In addition to having already been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1966, he accepted his appointment as Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to Literature from the British monarch in 2002. He was presented the Nobel Prize in Literature in December 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in January 2007.

He was awarded academic honorary degrees at the University of Leeds, in April 2007 (in person), at which its Humanities faculty processed in full academic garb solely to present the honorary doctorate to Pinter;"Pinter Receives Honorary Degree", BBC News 13 April 2007, accessed 8 October 2007. at the University of Kragujevac, in Serbia; and at the University of Cambridge, in June 2008 (both of the latter in absentia). [Pinter did not attend the ceremony due to ill health.] In December 2007, the British Library announced that it had acquired his literary archive for over £1.1 million (approx. US$2.24 million) on behalf of the British nation.

After having accepted the honorary presidency of the Central School of Speech and Drama, a constituent college of the University of London, in October 2008, he received an honorary fellowship during its honorary degree ceremony, also in absentia, due to ill health, on 10 December 2008, two weeks before his death from cancer on 24 December 2008.

Honours, awards, and prizes Awards and nominations Award Year Category Work Result Academy Awards1982Best Adapted ScreenplayThe French Lieutenant's Woman1984BetrayalBAFTA Awards1964Best British ScreenplayThe Servant1965The Pumpkin Eater1967The Quiller Memorandum1968Accident1975Best ScreenplayThe Go-Between1982The French Lieutenant's Woman1984Best Adapted ScreenplayBetrayal1997BAFTA FellowshipFilm in 1997 at BAFTAGolden Globe Awards1982Best ScreenplayThe French Lieutenant's WomanHarold Pinter — Golden GlobesTony Awards1962Best PlayThe Caretaker"Ceremony 1962" tonyawards.com, accessed May 29, 20161967The Homecoming"Ceremony 1967" tonyawards.com, accessed May 29, 20161969Best Direction of a PlayThe Man in the Glass Booth1972Best PlayOld TimesLaurence Olivier Awards1979Play of the YearBetrayal1981Director of the YearQuartermaine's Terms1993Best Revival of a Play or ComedyNo Man's Land1996Society Special Award

Honours Best Play award for The Caretaker in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, 1960 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 1966 Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), 1970 European Prize for Literature (Vienna), 1973 Pirandello Prize (Palermo), 1980 Giles Cooper Award, 1981 Order of Merit (Chile), 1992 America Award, 1995 The David Cohen Prize for Literature, 1995 Honorary fellow of Queen Mary, University of London Laurence Olivier Special Award, 1996 Molière d'honneur, Paris, in recognition of his life's work, 1997 The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, 1997 BAFTA Fellowship, 1997 Companion of Literature, Royal Society of Literature, 1998 The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, 2000 Brianza Poetry Prize (Italy), 2000 The South Bank Show Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, 2001"South Bank Prize for Craig David", BBC News 25 January 2001, accessed 15 September 2007: "Harold Pinter - regarded by many as Britain's greatest living playwright - received the award for outstanding achievement." (Features photograph of Harold Pinter receiving the award for "outstanding achievement in the arts.") S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award, 2001 for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature "Premio Fiesole ai Maestri del Cinema", Italy, 2001 World Leaders Award (World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius, Toronto), 2001"Travel Advisory: Toronto Festival Honors 14 Leaders in the Arts", The New York Times 9 September 2001. Hermann Kesten Prize for outstanding commitment on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers, awarded by German PEN (Berlin), 2001 Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to Literature, 2002 Diploma ad Honorem, Teatro Filodrammatici (Milan), 2004 The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, 50th Anniversary – Special Award, 2004 Wilfred Owen Poetry Prize, 2005 Franz Kafka Prize, 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005 Europe Theatre Prize, 2006"X Edition - pinter_motivazioni (Letter of Motivation)" . Europe Theatre Prize (X. ed.), 2006. Web. 9 March 2009. (Italian and English). [Hyperlinked program and related events.] Serbian Foundation Prize, 2006 St. George Plaque of the City of Kragujevac, 2006 Legion d'honneur, France, 2007 Blue plaque on his old home in Worthing, 2009

Honorary degrees University of Reading, 1970 University of Birmingham, 1971 University of Glasgow, 1974 University of East Anglia, 1974 University of Stirling, 1979 Brown University, 1982 University of Hull, 1986 University of Sussex, 1990 University of East London, 1994 University of Sofia, 1995 University of Bristol, 1998 Goldsmiths, University of London, 1999 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2000 University of Florence, 2001 University of Turin, 2002 National University of Ireland, 2004 University of Leeds, 2007 University of Kragujevac, 2008 University of Cambridge, 2008 Central School of Speech and Drama, 2008

Europe Theatre Prize In 2006, he was awarded the X Europe Theatre Prize, in Turin, with the following motivation: Harold Pinter started out as an actor in 1951. In 2005 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the intervening half-century he has been many things: playwright, screen-writer, director, poet and performer. But his greatest achievement has been to re-write the rules of drama. He has created poetry out of everyday speech with its pauses, hesitations and repetitions. He has constantly explored, like a theatrical Proust, the pervasive power of memory. And, in a sequence of remarkable plays from The Room (1957) to Celebration (2000), he has demolished the idea of the omniscient author: instead of manipulating character to a chosen end, Pinter presents the evidence as he sees it and allows the spectator freedom of interpretation. But, although Pinter is a true theatrical poet, his work and life are filled with a moral rage against injustice. He is a political writer, not in the sense of endorsing a party ideology but in his assault on the abuse of human dignity and the mis-use of language by those in power. There are many other facets to Pinter: the Cockney humourist, the skilled movie-writer, the heavyweight actor, the cricket-loving Englishman. But, if Pinter's plays are performed the world over, it is because they touch a universal chord. And what everyone recognises is that we live in a world of fear and anxiety briefly alleviated by memories of past happiness. Pinter speaks to audiences everywhere and to generations yet unborn; which makes him an ideal recipient of the Europe Theatre Prize.

See also Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library List of people who have declined a British honour

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List of awards and honours received by Harold Pinter

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