About Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). He published his first novel, All the Same Shadows, in 1961, the screenplay for Private Potter (1962) from his television drama, and the stage play March Hares in 1964. He also created more than 16 screen plays, but seldom wrote original material directly for the screen, usually acting as an adapter, sometimes of his own work, as with The Dresser. He won an Academy Award for the script of The Pianist, having already been nominated for The Dresser in 1983. In June 2013 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen by the Duchess of Rothesay.
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