Pinter’s Papers Saved in £1.1m British Library Deal???
Date: 12 December 2007
The letters, manuscripts, programmes, photographs, scrapbooks and even emails belonging to playwright
Harold Pinter have been acquired “for the nation” by the British Library in a stonking £1.1m sale. The move means that the collection will remain in Britain, unlike
David Hare’s and
Tom Stoppard’s whose archives are housed at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. Pinter’s collection contains more than 150 boxes of correspondence with leading theatrical figures over the past 50 years, including
Samuel Beckett,
Arthur Miller,
David Mamet,
Noel Coward and
Sarah Kane. Some 30-40 items will shortly go on display at the British Library next month. According to the Guardian, Pinter said yesterday: "I am delighted that the British Library has purchased my archive. I am very pleased indeed that it will stay in this country." Cataloguing the archive will take until the end of 2008.
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