"There's a silence beneath the words very often." #Onthisday 1997: Harold Pinter discussed how he used language in his plays, on Face-to-Face. | BBC Archive

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivering the annual Pinter Prize Lecture after being awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018. The PEN Pinter Prize, named in honor of playwright and Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, is given annually to a writer of “outstanding literary merit from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, "casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’.” Full vide

📢 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗗! 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹 is a play by Nobel Prize winner, Harold Pinter. It tells the story of an affair in reverse-chronological structure. Pinter was inspired by his own seven-year affair with Joan Bakewell – who would go on to write a play, Keeping in Touch, to tell her side of the story. Don't miss your chance to catch this brilliant theatre piece before it closes this weekend! BOOK NOW ➡️ https://bit.ly/3lvB5s8 | SISTIC