Richard Pine, Date of Birth

Richard Pine

Irish critic

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1949

Profession: biographer, music critic, journalist, musicologist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Richard Pine (born 21 August 1949) 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In 2012, to mark the centenary of the birth of Lawrence Durrell, Pine edited and introduced a previously unpublished novel by Durrell, "Judith".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 regular columns on Greek affairs in Kathimerini and The Irish Times and is also 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.'