Richard Pine

Who is Richard Pine?

Richard Pine is the author of critical works on the Irish playwright Brian Friel and the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell. He worked for the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann before moving to Greece in 2001 to found the Durrell School of Corfu which he directed until 2010. In 2012, to mark the centenary of the birth of Lawrence Durrell, Pine edited and introduced a previously unpublished novel by Durrell, "Judith". He writes a column on Greek affairs for The Irish Times and is an obituarist for The Guardian. His work on Friel has been described by the writer and critic David Ian Rabey as 'immensely stimulating, courageous and encouraging ...' Lawrence Durrell described Pine's work as 'the best unpacking of my literary baggage I have heard'