Honours and Awards To Harold Pinter - Honours, Awards, and Prizes

Honours, Awards, and Prizes

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), 1966
• Shakespeare Prize (Hamburg), 1970
• European Prize for Literature (Vienna), 1973
• Pirandello Prize (Palermo), 1980
• Giles Cooper Award, 1981
• Order of Merit (Chile), 1992
• The David Cohen Prize, 1995
• Honorary fellow of Queen Mary, University of London
• Laurence Olivier Special Award, 1996
• Molière d'honneur, Paris, in recognition of his life's work, 1997
• Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, 1997
• BAFTA Fellowship, 1997
• Companion of Literature, RSL, 1998
• The Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, 2000
• Brianza Poetry Prize (Italy), 2000
• South Bank Show Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, 2001
• S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award, 2001 for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature
• "Premio Fiesole ai Maestri del Cinema", Italy, 2001
• World Leaders Award (World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius, Toronto), 2001
• Hermann Kesten Prize for outstanding commitment on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers, awarded by German PEN (Berlin), 2001
• Companion of Honour (CH) for services to Literature, 2002
• Diploma ad Honorem, Teatro Filodrammatici (Milan), 2004
• Evening Standard Awards, 50th Anniversary - Special Award, 2004
• Wilfred Owen Poetry Prize, 2005
• Franz Kafka Prize, 2005
• Nobel Prize in Literature, 2005
• Europe Theatre Prize, 2006
• Serbian Foundation Prize, 2006
• St. George Plaque of the City of Kragujevac, 2006
• Legion d'honneur, France, 2007