Various Voices

Harold Pinter was born in London in 1930. He lived with Antonia Fraser from 1975 and they married in 1980. He won the David Cohen British Literature Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award for a lifetime's achievement in theatre, was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in December 2008.

If you care about literature, you should read this last edition of Various Voices, It's an apt summation of a long and brililant career. Irish Sunday Independent This updated colelction of writings, from the 1948 poem School Life to a final and loving tribute to his wife, Antonia Fraser, emphasises not so much Pinter's development as an artist as his political awakening and growing andger about what he viewed as American imperialism ... That his intergrity remained in tact despite others' misinterpretation of his words is perhaps the greatest testament to his art. Herald