List of works by 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 (written 1957; first performance 15 May 1957)
• The Birthday Party (written 1957; first performance 28 April 1958)
• The Dumb Waiter (written 1957; first performance 21 January 1960)
• A Slight Ache (written 1958; first performance 29 July 1959)
• The Hothouse (written 1958; first performance 24 April 1980)
• A Night Out (written 1959; first performance 1 March 1960)
• The Caretaker (written 1959; first performance 27 April 1960)
• Night School (written 1960; first performance 21 July 1960)
• The Dwarfs (written 1960; first performance 2 December 1960)
• The Collection (written 1961; first performance 11 May 1961)
• The Lover (written 1962; first performance 28 March 1963)
• Tea Party (written 1964; first performance 25 March 1965)
• The Homecoming (written 1964; first performance 3 June 1965)
• The Basement (written 1966; first performance 28 February 1967)
• Landscape (written 1967; first performance 25 April 1968)
• Silence (written 1968; first performance 2 July 1969)
• Night (written 1969; first performance 9 April 1969)
• Old Times (written 1970; first performance 1 June 1971)
• Monologue (written 1972; first performance 10 April 1973)
• No Man's Land (written 1974; first performance 23 April 1975)
• Betrayal (written 1978; first performance 15 November 1978)
• Family Voices (written 1980; first performance 22 January 1981)
• Victoria Station (written 1982; performed with Family Voices in 1982 as part of Other Places)
• A Kind of Alaska (written 1982; performed with Family Voices in 1982 as part of Other Places)
• One for the Road (written 1984; first performance 13 March 1984)
• Mountain Language (written 1988; first performance 20 October 1988)
• The New World Order (written 1991; first performance 19 July 1991)^[1]
• Party Time (written 1991; first performance 31 October 1991)
• Moonlight (written 1993; first performance 7 September 1993)
• Ashes to Ashes (written 1996; first performance 12 September 1996)
• Celebration (written 1999; first performance 16 March 2000)
• Remembrance of Things Past (written 2000; first performance 23 November 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)
• Mac (1968)
• 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

Source:^[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]

Speeches

Further information: Bibliography for Harold Pinter § Additional essays, letters, and speeches

• "Art, Truth and Politics" (2005) ["Nobel Lecture" delivered live via video on 7 Dec. 2005]

See also

• Literature portal

• Characteristics of Harold Pinter's work