Editing Harold Pinter (section)

==Honours==
{{Further|Honours and awards to Harold Pinter}}
[[File:Harold Pinter.JPG|right|thumbnail| Study of Pinter by [[Reginald Gray (artist)|Reginald Gray]], 2007. (''[[New Statesman]]'', 12 January 2009)]]

An Honorary Associate of the [[National Secular Society]], a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Modern Language Association|Modern Language Association of America]] (1970),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mla.org/honfell_past |title=Past Honorary Fellows |work=Modern Language Association |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204143428/http://www.mla.org/honfell_past |archive-date=4 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haroldpinter.org/biography/index.shtml |title=Biography |editor=Batty, Mark |work=haroldpinter.org |year=2011 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709085705/http://www.haroldpinter.org/biography/index.shtml |archive-date=9 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Pinter was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1966<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44004/supplements/6539 |title=Supplement to The London Gazette, 11th June 1966 |journal=[[London Gazette]] |publisher=[[Government of the United Kingdom]] |date=11 June 1996 |access-date=29 June 2011 |issue=44004 |page=6539 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019015146/http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44004/supplements/6539 |archive-date=19 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and became a [[Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour]] in 2002, having declined a knighthood in 1996.<ref name=White>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/15/arts.politics |title=Arise Sir Mick, but Pinter takes surprise top honour |first=Michael |last=White |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=15 June 2002 |publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|GMG]] |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113031402/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jun/15/arts.politics |archive-date=13 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1995, he accepted the [[David Cohen Prize]], in recognition of a lifetime of literary achievement. In 1996, he received  a [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Special Award]] for lifetime achievement in the theatre.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98530/Olivier-Winners-1996/ |title=Olivier Winners 1996 |work=The Official London Theatre Guide |date=24 April 2008 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515145552/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98530/Olivier-Winners-1996/ |archive-date=15 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1997 he became a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] Fellow.<ref name=BAFTAawards>{{cite web |url=http://www.bafta.org/awards/academy-fellows,125,BA.html |title=Academy Fellows |work=bafta.org |year=2011 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525123941/http://www.bafta.org/awards/academy-fellows,125,BA.html |archive-date=25 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He received the World Leaders Award for "Creative Genius" as the subject of a week-long "Homage" in Toronto, in October 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/travel/travel-advisory-toronto-festival-honors-14-leaders-in-the-arts.html |title=Travel Advisory: Toronto Festival Honors 14 Leaders in the Arts |last=Staff |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=9 September 2001 |location=New York City |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703234324/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/travel/travel-advisory-toronto-festival-honors-14-leaders-in-the-arts.html |archive-date=3 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>  In 2004, he received the [[Wilfred Owen]] Award for Poetry for his "lifelong contribution to literature, 'and specifically for his collection of poetry entitled ''War'', published in 2003'".<ref name=GuardianWOAPA>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/aug/04/iraq.books |title=Pinter awarded Wilfred Owen prize for poetry opposing Iraq conflict |first=John |last=Ezard |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 August 2004 |publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|GMG]] |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |access-date=3 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323212608/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/aug/04/iraq.books |archive-date=23 March 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In March 2006, he was awarded the [[Europe Theatre Prize]] in recognition of lifetime achievements pertaining to drama and theatre.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.premio-europa.org/open_page.php?id=319 |title=Europe Theatre Prize – X Edition – pinter_motivazioni |work=premio-europa.org |year=2006 |access-date=29 June 2011 |language=it, en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727184239/http://www.premio-europa.org/open_page.php?id=319 |archive-date=27 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In conjunction with that award, the critic Michael Billington coordinated an international conference on Pinter: Passion, Poetry, Politics, including scholars and critics from Europe and the Americas, held in [[Turin]], Italy, from 10 to 14 March 2006.<ref name=BillingtonETP/><ref name=ETPEvent/><ref>Billington, ''Harold Pinter'' 427–28.</ref>

In October 2008, the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]] announced that Pinter had agreed to become its president and awarded him an [[Honorary title (academic)|honorary fellowship]] at its graduation ceremony.<ref name=Central2008>{{cite web |url=http://www.cssd.ac.uk/content/obituaries#harold |title=Obituaries: Harold Pinter – 1930–2008 |work=[[Central School of Speech and Drama]] |year=2011 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520165624/http://www.cssd.ac.uk/content/obituaries |archive-date=20 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On his appointment, Pinter commented: "I was a student at Central in 1950–51. I enjoyed my time there very much and I am delighted to become president of a remarkable institution."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/22095/pinter-replaces-mandelson-as-central |title=The Stage / News / Pinter replaces Mandelson as Central president |first=Alistair |last=Smith |work=thestage.co.uk |publisher=The Stage Newspaper Limited |date=14 October 2008 |access-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716014556/http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/22095/pinter-replaces-mandelson-as-central |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> But he had to receive that honorary degree, his 20th, in absentia owing to ill health.<ref name=Central2008/>  His presidency of the school was brief; he died just two weeks after the graduation ceremony, on 24 December 2008.

In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the [[Sretenje Order]] of [[Serbia]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Укази о одликовањима |url=https://www.predsednik.rs/predsednik/ukazi-o-odlikovanjima |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=Председник Републике Србије}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nikolić odlikovao strane državnike i zaslužne pojedince |url=https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/drustvo/655721/nikolic-odlikovao-strane-drzavnike-i-zasluzne-pojedince |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=kurir.rs |language=sr}}</ref>

===Nobel Prize in Literature===
{{main|2005 Nobel Prize in Literature}}

===Légion d'honneur===
On 18 January 2007, French Prime Minister [[Dominique de Villepin]] presented Pinter with France's highest civil honour, the [[Légion d'honneur]], at a ceremony at the French embassy in London.  De Villepin praised Pinter's poem "American Football" (1991) stating: "With its violence and its cruelty, it is for me one of the most accurate images of war, one of the most telling metaphors of the temptation of imperialism and violence."  In response, Pinter praised France's opposition to the war in Iraq.  M. de Villepin concluded: "The poet stands still and observes what doesn't deserve other men's attention. Poetry teaches us how to live and you, Harold Pinter, teach us how to live."  He said that Pinter received the award particularly "because in seeking to capture all the facets of the human spirit, [Pinter's] works respond to the aspirations of the French public, and its taste for an understanding of man and of what is truly universal".<ref name=FE>{{cite web |url=http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Legion-d-honneur-for-Harold-Pinter.html |title=Légion d'Honneur for Harold Pinter |last=France in the United Kingdom |work=French Embassy in the UK |date=17 January 2007 |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717003151/http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Legion-d-honneur-for-Harold-Pinter.html |archive-date=17 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6273365.stm |title=French PM honours Harold Pinter |last=Staff |work=[[BBC News]] |date=18 January 2007 |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] |location=London |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813095244/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6273365.stm |archive-date=13 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Lawrence Pollard observed that "the award for the great playwright underlines how much Mr Pinter is admired in countries like France as a model of the uncompromising radical intellectual".<ref name=FE/>