Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (n. 24 mai 1932, Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit – d. 12 aprilie 2016, Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit) a fost un cunoscut dramaturg englez. A scris peste 50 de piese de teatru, patru volume de proză scurtă, două volume de eseuri, multe articole în presă și o carte despre jurnalism, o carte pentru copii, câteva poezii etc. Piesele sale au fost traduse în 20 de limbi și au fost jucate pe plan mondial.

Arnold Wesker
Date personale
Născut	24 mai 1932[1][2][3][4][5] Greater London, Anglia, Regatul Unit[6]
Decedat	12 aprilie 2016 (83 de ani)[2][7][8][9][1] Brighton, Anglia, Regatul Unit[10]
Cauza decesului	boala Parkinson
Copii	Elsa Håstad[*][[Elsa Håstad (diplomată suedeză)|​]]
Cetățenie	Regatul Unit[11]
Ocupație	dramaturg scriitor scenarist actor de televiziune[*]​ poet
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză[12][13]
Studii	University College School[*][[University College School (school in Camden, UK)|​]]
Opere semnificative	The Kitchen[*][[The Kitchen |​]]
Note
Premii	Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[*][[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (award of the Royal Society of Literature)|​]] Knight Bachelor[*][[Knight Bachelor (title granted to a man who has been knighted by the British monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry)|​]]
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Scrieri

Wesker a scris mai multe piese de teatru, cărți de ficțiune și de non-ficțiune.^[14]

Piese de teatru

• The Kitchen, 1957 ISBN: 978-1-84943-757-8
• Chicken Soup with Barley, 1958 ISBN: 978-1-4081-5661-2
• Roots, 1959 ISBN: 978-1-4725-7461-9
• I'm Talking about Jerusalem, 1960
• Menace, 1961 (pentru televiziune)
• Chips with Everything, 1962
• The Nottingham Captain, 1962
• Four Seasons, 1965
• Their Very Own and Golden City, 1966
• The Friends, 1970
• The Old Ones, 1970
• The Journalists, 1972 ISBN: 0-14-048133-8
• The Wedding Feast, 1974
• Shylock, 1976
• Love Letters on Blue Paper, 1976
• One More Ride On The Merry-Go-Round, 1978
• Phoenix, 1980
• Caritas, 1980 ISBN: 978-0-224-02020-6
• Voices on the Wind, 1980
• Breakfast, 1981
• Sullied Hand, 1981
• Four Portraits – Of Mothers, 1982
• Annie Wobbler, 1982
• Yardsale, 1983
• Cinders, 1983
• Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon?, 1986
• When God Wanted a Son, 1986
• Lady Othello, 1987
• Little Old Lady & Shoeshine, 1987
• Badenheim 1939, 1987
• Shoeshine, 1987
• The Mistress, 1988
• Beorhtel's Hill, 1988 (piesă pentru Basildon)
• Men Die Women Survive, 1990
• Letter To A Daughter, 1990
• Blood Libel, 1991
• Wild Spring, 1992
• Bluey, 1993
• The Confession, 1993
• Circles of Perception, 1996
• Break, My Heart, 1997
• Denial, 1997
• Barabbas, 2000
• The Kitchen Musical, 2000
• Groupie, 2001 ISBN: 1-84943-741-6
• Longitude, 2002
• The Rocking Horse, 2008 (comandată de BBC World Service)
• Joy and Tyranny, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84943-546-8

Ficțiune

• Six Sundays in January, Jonathan Cape, 1971
• Love Letters on Blue Paper, Jonathan Cape, 1974
• Said the Old Man to the Young Man, Jonathan Cape, 1978
• Fatlips, Writers and Readers Harper & Row, 1978
• The King's Daughters, Quartet Books, 1998
• Honey, Pocket Books, 2006

Non-ficțiune

• Distinctions, 1985 (colecție de eseuri)
• Fears of Fragmentation, Jonathan Cape, 1971
• Say Goodbye You May Never See Them Again, Jonathan Cape, 1974
• Journey Into Journalism, Writers & Readers, 1977
• The Dusty Wesker Cook Book, Chatto & Windus, 1987
• As Much as I Dare, Century Random House, 1994 (autobiografie)
• The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel, Quartet Books, 1997
• Wesker On Theatre, 2010 (colecție de eseuri) ISBN: 978-1-84943-376-1
• Ambivalences, Oberon Books, 2011