(1933-09-08) 8 September 1933 (age 90) Mill Hill, Middlesex, England
Occupation
Reporter
columnist
novelist
playwright
screenwriter
Education
Kingston Grammar School Joint Services School for Linguists
Alma mater
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Period
1962–present
Genre
Farce, historical fiction, philosophy
Notable awards
Somerset Maugham Award; Laurence Olivier Award; International Emmy Awards; Critics' Circle Theatre Awards; Tony Award; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Golden PEN Award; Whitbread Prize
Spouse
Gillian Palmer[1][2] Claire Tomalin (1993–)[3][4]
Children
3 daughters including Rebecca Frayn[5]
Relatives
Finn Harries[6] Jack Harries[7]
Michael Frayn, FRSL (/freɪn/; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off[8] and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy.
His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (2006).
^Gyles Brandreth (27 June 2002). "A closed book opens". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^Hanks, Robert (17 November 2002). "Michael Frayn and Claire Tomalin: A marriage between the sheets". The Independent. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^"The ultimate twinset: Jack and Finn Harries!". Tatler. 5 March 2013.
^Rainey, Sarah (14 September 2012). "YouTube videos funded our gap year travels". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^Andrew Billen (23 April 2009). "Michael Frayn on his very current Alphabetical Order". The Times. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^Miller, Michael W. (6 January 2016). "Michael Frayn's 'Noises Off' Returns to Broadway". The Wall Street Journal.
^John Walsh @johnhenrywalsh (24 March 2013). "Michael Frayn: Farce and the uncertainty principle". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
^"Michael Frayn British author and translator", Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
MichaelFrayn, FRSL (/freɪn/; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and...
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(1989). He has acted in plays such as David Hare's Racing Demon (1995), MichaelFrayn's Copenhagen (2000), and Democracy (2004), and Sophie Treadwell's Machinal...
while bringing up her children. She married the novelist and playwright MichaelFrayn in 1993. They live in Petersham, London. James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
Performing Arts in 1977. A production directed by Peter Hall, translated by MichaelFrayn and starring Dorothy Tutin as Ranevskaya, Albert Finney as Lopakhin...
Michael Weller's romantic comedy What the Night Is For. In 2003, he appeared as former West German federal chancellor Willy Brandt in MichaelFrayn's...
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in the magazine RAW "Here", a poem by Philip Larkin Here (play), by MichaelFrayn Here, Prozor, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina HERE Arts Center,...
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