Ronald Harwood’s plays include A Family, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (from Evelyn Waugh), The Dresser, Tramway Road, The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest, Interpreters, J.J. Farr, Ivanov (from Chekov), Another Time, Reflected Glory, Poison Pen, Taking Sides, The Handyman, Equally Divided, Quartet and Mahler’s Conversion. An original play for radio, Goodbye Kiss, was broadcast in November 1997.

His films include The Dresser (Academy Award Nomination for Best Screenplay), Taking Sides (XXIX Flaiano Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay) and The Pianist. The Pianist won the Palme d’Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and the 2003 BAFTA for Best Film. Ronald Harwood was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has also received a 2003 Academy Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Ronald Harwood is also the author of several novels. His most recent, Home, was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction in 1994. He is the editor of The Faber Book of Theatre and the author of a history of the theatre, All the World’s A Stage, which accompanied the BBC2 TV series he presented. He also wrote Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre.

He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1974 and was Visitor in Theatre at Balliol College, Oxford in 1985. He was President of English PEN, 1989-1993, and President of International PEN, 1993-97. He is Chairman of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1996 he was appointed Chevalier de l’ordre National des Arts et des Lettres. In 1999, he was appointed a CBE. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Keele University in 2002.