Harold Pinter's Awards are now housed at the British Library, and Pinter's Nobel Prize Medal in 2005 plus bronze mask - BAFTA fellowship - are among the 50 or so awards belonging to the late playwright who died in 2008 age 78! Pinter's widow Antonia Frazer said /this is what Harold would have wanted/
commented the historian on Wednesday.
The number of awards is impressive and reads as follows:
1960 Evening Standard Award for best play "The Caretaker"
A Tony
Bronze Mask for BAFTA Fellowship
Franz Kafka Award
... Prague
Moliere d'honneur from France
Pirandello Award from Italy
Orden d'Chile
Amistad Award from Cuba
German Branch of Human Rights - Charity - PEN - for work on behalf of persecuted and
imprisoned writers:
2004: Wilfred Owen Prize - for controversial poems expressing his opposition to the Iraq War.
2005: Nobel Prize for Literature:
An extraordinary accomplishment in the life of one man, a playwright, and poet!
Kathryn Johnson Curator of The British Library said Pinter's Nobel Prize Medal would sit alongside - handwritten notes - 19 typed drafts and acceptance speech. Pinter was unable to give his acceptance speech due to ill health but it was video taped and screened by The Swedish Academy - 2005!
Thanks Reuters!