Sir Ronald Harwood obituary by Michael Coveney

Playwright and screenwriter whose hit play, The Dresser, drew on his experiences of working with the actor-manager Donald WolfitRonald Harwood, who has died aged 85, was an indefatigably hard-working playwright, novelist and screenwriter, who won an Oscar for best screenplay for The Pianist (2002), his adaptation of WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szpilman's book about surviving the Warsaw ghetto. He first made a serious impressio…

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