Harold Pinter, playwright, director, actor, poet and political analyst, was born October 10, 1930 in East London. Mr. Pinter has written twenty-nine plays including The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Betrayal; twenty-one screenplays including The Servant, The Go-Between and The French Lieutenant's Woman; and directed twenty-seven theatre productions, including James Joyce's Exile, David Mamet's Oleanna, seven plays by Simon Gray and many of his own plays including his latest, Celebration, paired with his first The Room, at The Almeida Theatre, London in the spring of 2000.

He has been awarded the Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), the European Prize for Literature (Vienna), the Pirandello Prize (Palermo), the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award and the Molière D'Honneur for lifetime achievement. In 1999, Mr. Pinter was made Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. He has received honorary degrees from fourteen universities. In 2005, Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the highest honor available to any writer in the world.

Pinter's interest in politics is a very public one. Over the years he has spoken out forcefully about the abuse of state power around the world, including, recently, NATO's bombing of Serbia. His most recent speech was given on the anniversary of NATO's bombing of Serbia at the Committee for Peace in the Balkans Conference, at The Conway Hall, June 10th, 2000.

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