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Harold Pinter was born on October 10, 1930 in the East End, London, to a Jewish family. His father, Jack, was a tailor, and his mother, Francis, was a housewife. His grandparents emigrated to England from East Eurola. According to Pinter himself, his parents were "very respectable, highly respected middle-class Jews." After leaving school, Pinter entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, but soon left this prestigious institution. His acting career began in 1951 in Ireland, with an old-fashioned itinerant theater company led by Anew Maxmaster. Two years later, Harold Pinter joined the Donald Wolfith troupe, which favored the classical repertoire. The young author's first play, The Room, was staged in May 1957 by students from the University of Bristol's drama department. In the late 1950s, Pinter was talked about as a talented playwright. Although the outward signs of Pinter's drama correspond to realistic theater, the relationship between the characters and the development of dialogue and events are unpredictable and atypical, allowing for various interpretations. Pinter's name even gave a name to the literary definition of "pinterism", reflecting the specific writing style of the playwright.
According to his script, the film "The Last Tycoon" based on the novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1976) was staged. Another famous film based on a script by Harold Pinter is "The French Lieutenant's Mistress" based on the novel by John Fowles (1981). In 1990, Pinter adapted for the screen the novel by Margaret Atwood "The Story of a Handmaid", in 1996 he participated in the film adaptation of the novel by Franz Kafka "The Trial". In 2003, the playwright published a collection of poems "War", in which he expressed his condemnation of the US-British invasion of Iraq. The collection was awarded the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. The last play by the playwright "In Search of Lost Time" (or "Recollection of the Past") was written in 2000 based on the eponymous novel of the same name by Marcel Proust; it was staged at the National Theater in London. In total, Pinter has written 29 theater plays and 27 screenplays. The 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to him for plays in which he "reveals the chasm that lies beneath the bustle of everyday life and invades the dungeons of oppression." Pinter devoted much of his Nobel speech to condemning America and the policies of George W. Bush. In the spring of 2005, the 74-year-old writer announced that he no longer intends to write plays, but will continue to work in other genres, primarily in poetry. In April 2008, among 105 famous Jews, he signed an Open Letter in connection with the anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel: "We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land." (We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state based on terrorism, massacres, expelling people from their land) In October 2011, the British Library found the sketch "Umbrellas" by playwright Harold Pinter, which had been kept there for half a century.

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