Michael Frayn
Author of Headlong
About the Author
Michael Frayn is the author of the award-winning "Copenhagen" & twelve other plays, including "Noises Off". The most recent of his nine novels is "Headlong", a New York Times Editor's Choice & Booker Prize finalist. He lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
Series
Works by Michael Frayn
Chekhov plays : The cherry orchard + The seagull + Three sisters + Uncle Vanya + vaudevilles (1988) — Translator, Introduction — 82 copies
Speak after the beep : studies in the art of communicating with inanimate and semi-inanimate objects (1995) 19 copies
On the Outskirts 4 copies
Here [theatre programme] 1 copy
Madness and Civilisation 1 copy
Una vida muy privada 1 copy
Chinamen, a one-act comedy 1 copy
The Best of Michael Frayn 1 copy
Never put off to Gomorrah 1 copy
Associated Works
The Seagull + Uncle Vanya + Three Sisters + The Cherry Orchard (1895) — Translator, some editions; Introduction, some editions — 1,169 copies
Michael Frayn: Matchbox theatre : thirty short entertainments [theatre programme] — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Frayn, Michael
- Legal name
- Frayn, Michael J.
- Birthdate
- 1933-09-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Mill Hill, Middlesex, England
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK (birth)
Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK - Education
- Emmanuel College Cambridge University (BA|1957|Philosophy)
- Occupations
- reporter (The Guardian)
translator
novelist
playwright - Relationships
- Tomalin, Claire (wife)
Frayn, Rebecca (daughter) - Organizations
- The Guardian (reporter)
- Awards and honors
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1969)
Somerset Maugham Award (1966)
Hawthornden Prize (1967)
Whitbread Prize for Fiction (2002)
The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (2002)
Golden PEN Award (2003) (show all 13)
London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy (1975, 1980, 1982, 1998, 2003)
Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year (1976, 1982)
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play (1986, 2000)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction (1999)
Prix Molière (1999)
Tony Award for Best Play (1984, 2000)
Costa Biography Award (2010) - Agent
- Greene and Heaton
Members
Discussions
Skios by Michael Frayn in Booker Prize (August 2013)
Reviews
Lists
Booker Prize (3)
Pants on fire (1)
Dead narrators (1)
Sonlight Books (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 76
- Also by
- 12
- Members
- 8,987
- Popularity
- #2,674
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 255
- ISBNs
- 381
- Languages
- 17
- Favorited
- 28
There's just enough philosophizing on computer consciousness, and axiomatic ethics, and computer-generated English to give this book more serious literary pretensions than, say, a Tom Sharpe, but I'd say that's the book's closest cousin.
There's a lot to admire and respect in this book, and there's a lot more to enjoy. Overall, the humour can be a little over-egged here and there, and the situations can boil over into farce, but it manages to hold itself up as a slight novel of ideas.
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