THE WORKS OF HAROLD PINTER

 

Works of Harold Pinter provides a list of Harold Pinter's stage and television plays; awards and nominations for plays; radio plays; screenplays for films; awards and nominations for screenwriting; dramatic sketches; prose fiction; collected poetry; and awards for poetry. It augments a section of the main article on this author.

Stage and television plays

• The Room (1957)
• The Birthday Party (1957)
• The Dumb Waiter (1957)
• A Slight Ache (1958)
• The Hothouse (1958)
• The Caretaker (1959)
• A Night Out (1959)
• Night School (1960)
• The Dwarfs (1960)
• The Collection (1961)
• The Lover (1962)
• Tea Party (1964)
• The Homecoming (1964)
• The Basement (1966)
• Landscape (1967)
• Silence (1968)
• Old Times (1970)
• Monologue (1972)
• No Man's Land (1974)
• Betrayal (1978)
• Family Voices (1980)
• A Kind of Alaska (1982)
• Victoria Station (1982)
• One for the Road (1984)
• Mountain Language (1988)
• The New World Order (1991)^[1]
• Party Time (1991)
• Moonlight (1993)
• Ashes to Ashes (1996)
• Celebration (1999)
• Remembrance of Things Past (2000) — stage adaptation of The Proust Screenplay; a collaboration with Di Trevis

Awards and nominations for plays

Broadway^[2]

• 1962 Tony Award Best Play: The Caretaker (nominee)
• 1967 Tony Award Best Play: The Homecoming (winner)
• 1972 Tony Award Best Play: Old Times (nominee)
• 1977 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play (Foreign): No Man's Land (nominee)

Dramatic sketches

• The Black and White (1959)
• Trouble in the Works (1959)
• The Last to Go (1959)
• Request Stop (1959)
• Special Offer (1959)
• That's Your Trouble (1959)
• That's All (1959)
• Interview (1959)
• Applicant (1959)
• Dialogue for Three (1959)
• Umbrellas (1960)
• Night (1969)
• Precisely (1983)
• "God's District" (1997) — monologue written for the revue Then Again...^[3]
• Press Conference (2002)
• Apart From That (2006)

Radio plays

• Voices (2005) — collaboration with composer James Clarke^[4]

Screenplays for films

• The Caretaker (1963)
• The Servant (1963)
• The Pumpkin Eater (1963)
• "The Compartment" (1965) — unpublished screenplay for unproduced film; adapted for stage as The Basement (1966)
• The Quiller Memorandum (1965)
• Accident (1966)
• The Birthday Party (1968) — unpublished screenplay adapted by Pinter from his play The Birthday Party (1957)
• The Go-Between (1970)
• The Homecoming (1969)
• Langrishe, Go Down (1970; adapted for TV 1978; film release 2002)
• The Proust Screenplay (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000); cf. Remembrance of Things Past
• The Last Tycoon (1974)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
• Betrayal (1982, 1983)^[5]
• Victory (1982) — published but unproduced
• Turtle Diary (1984)
• "The Handmaid's Tale" (1987) — unpublished credited screenplay commissioned for the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
• Reunion (1989)
• The Heat of the Day (1988) — adapted for TV
• The Comfort of Strangers (1989)
• "The Remains of the Day" (1991) — unpublished and uncredited (at Pinter's request) screenplay commissioned for the 1993 film The Remains of the Day
• Party Time (1992) — revised and adapted for TV
• The Trial (1993)
• "Lolita" (1994) — unpublished and uncredited screenplay commissioned for the 1997 film Lolita
• The Dreaming Child (1997) — published but unproduced; adapted from a short story by Isak Dinesen
• "The Tragedy of King Lear" (2000) — unpublished screenplay commissioned by actor Tim Roth for a film to be directed by Roth, but not produced
• Sleuth (2007)

Awards and nominations for screenwriting^[6]

• 1963 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Servant (nominee)
• 1964 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Pumpkin Eater (winner)
• 1966 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: The Quiller Memorandum (nominee)
• 1967 BAFTA Best British Screenplay: Accident (nominee)
• 1972 Society of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay: The Go-Between (winner)
• 1972 BAFTA Best Screenplay: The Go-Between (winner)
• 1976 David di Donatello (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: The Last Tycoon (winner)
• 1976 Ennio Flaiano Award for Screenwriting: The Last Tycoon (winner)
• 1981 BAFTA Best Screenplay: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
• 1981 Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
• 1982 David di Donatello (Italian Academy Awards) Best Foreign Screenplay: The French Lieutenant's Woman (winner)
• 1982 Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay––Motion Picture: The French Lieutenant's Woman (nominee)
• 1983 Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: Betrayal (nominee)
• 1983 BAFTA Best Adapted Screenplay: Betrayal (nominee)

Prose fiction

• "Kullus" (1949)
• The Dwarfs (written from 1952 to 1956; rev. and first published 1990) (Novel)
• "Latest Reports from the Stock Exchange" (1953)
• "The Black and White" (1954–55)
• "The Examination" (1955)
• "Tea Party" (1963)
• "The Coast" (1975)
• "Problem" (1976)
• "Lola" (1977)
• "Short Story" (1995)
• "Girls" (1995)
• "Sorry About This" (1999)
• "Tess" (2000)
• "Voices in the Tunnel" (2001)
• "The Mirror" (2007)

Collected poetry

• Poems (1971)
• I Know the Place (1977)
• Poems and Prose 1949–1977 (1978)
• Ten Early Poems (1990)
• Collected Poems and Prose (1995)
• "The Disappeared" and Other Poems (2002)
• Poems by Harold Pinter Chosen by Antonia Fraser. Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlets, 2002. (Limited ed. of 300 copies, "of which the first fifty are numbered and signed by the selector.")
• Six Poems for A. Warwick: Greville Press Pamphlets, 2007. ISBN 0-9555821-1-3 (10). ISBN 978-0-9555821-1-0 (13).

Anthologies and other collections

• 99 Poems in Translation: An Anthology Selected by Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, & Geoffrey Godbert (1994)
• 100 Poems by 100 Poets: An Anthology Selected by Harold Pinter, Anthony Astbury, & Geoffrey Godbert (1987; rpt. 1992)
• 101 Poems Against War (2003). Eds. Matthew Hollis & Paul Kegan. Afterword Andrew Motion. (Incl. "American Football", by Harold Pinter [80].)
• War (2003)
• Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2005 (1998; rev. & updated, 2005)
• Death etc. (2005)
• The Essential Pinter (2006)
• Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948–2008 (1998 & 2005; rev. & updated, 2009)

Awards for poetry

• 2004 Wilfred Owen Award for Poetry^[7]