The session was supported by Savills Chiswick. They spoke to the Festival director, Torin Douglas, in St Michael & All Angels Church, filmed by Chiswickbuzz – with no audience. The Chiswick Book Festival invited the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, who shared her life with Harold Pinter for 33 years, and Michael Billington, his biographer, to reflect on the playwright’s life and work. On October 10th 2020, Harold Pinter would have been 90. It is also 60 years since the first production of the play that made Pinter’s name, The Caretaker – which, as Michael Billington revealed in his biography, was written in, and based on, events in the flat at 373 Chiswick High Road where he was living (see extract and picture below).Īnd in November 2020, it will be 15 years since Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize, which he accepted in a blistering speech from the studios of Channel 4.

But this is also a memoir of a partnership between two of the greatest literary talents, with fascinating glimpses into their creativity and their illustrious circle of friends from the literary, political and theatrical world.Antonia Fraser and Michael Billington reflect on the life and work of Harold Pinter – YouTube Fraser uses her Diaries and her own recollections to tell a touching love story. Read more was a source of delight and inspiration to them both until the very end.

Their relationship flourished until Pinter's death on Christmas Eve 2008 and. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you somehow', Pinter told Fraser. 'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.' When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports.

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