We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist                          

Selected Works:

Plays:

Ashes to Ashes
The Basement
Betrayal
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker Celebration
The Collection The Dumb Waiter
The Dwarfs
Family Voices
The Homecoming
The Hothouse A Kind of Alaska
Landscape
The Lover
Moonlight
Monologue
Mountain Language
A Night Out
Night School
No Man's Land
Old Times
One for the Road
Party Time
Remembrance of Things Past - with Di Trevis
The Room
Silence
A Slight Ache
Tea Party
Victoria Station
Voices - with James Clarke

Dramatic sketches:

Apart From That
Applicant
The Black and White
Dialogue for Three
God's District
Interview
Last to Go
The New World Order
Night Precisely
Press Conference
Request Stop, Special Offer
That's All
That's Your Trouble
Trouble in the Work

Screenplays:

Accident
Betrayal
The Birthday Party
The Caretaker
The Comfort of Strangers
The Compartment
The Dreaming Child
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Go-Between
The Handmaid's Tale
The Heat of the Day
The Homecoming
Langrishe, Go Down
The Last Tycoon
Lolita
Party Time
The Proust Screenplay
The Pumpkin Eater
The Quiller Memorandum
The Remains of the Day
Reunion
The Servant
Sleuth
The Tragedy of King Lear
The Trial
Turtle Diary
Victory.

                          

Mother Frances Moskowitz
Father Jack Pinter
First wife Vivien Merchant, 1956-1980, one son Daniel
Second wife  Antonia Fraser, six step-children.                          

Honours awards and prizes:

Commmander of the Order of the British Empire - CBE - 1966
Shakespeare Prize - Hamburg - 1970
European Prize for Literature - Vienna - 1973
Pirandello Prize - Palermo - 1980
Chilean Order of Merit - 19192
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
ST 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 Medallion 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

Honorary degrees:

University of Reading - 1970
University of Birmingham - 1971 
University of Glasgow - 1974
University of East Anglia - 1974
University of Stirling - 1979
Brown University - 1982
University of Hull - 1986
University of Sussex - 1990
University of East London - 1994
University of Sofia - 1995
University of Bristol - 1998
Goldsmiths University of London - 1999
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - 2000
University of Florence - 2001 
University of Turin - 2002
National University of Ireland - 2004
University of Leeds - 2007
University of Kragujevac - 2008
University of Cambridge - 2008
Central School of Speech and Drama - 2008.                          

Early member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the United Kingdom and also had supported the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (1959–1994.

Participated in the  British artists' refusal to permit professional productions of their work in South Africa in 1963 - "Playwrights in Apartheid Protest" -  and in subsequent related campaigns.