Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn

FRSL
Frayn at the 2023 Chiswick Book Festival
Frayn at the 2023 Chiswick Book Festival
Born (1933-09-08) 8 September 1933 (age 91)
Mill Hill, Middlesex, England
Occupation
  • Reporter
  • columnist
  • novelist
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
EducationKingston Grammar School
Joint Services School for Linguists
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
Period1962–present
GenreFarce, historical fiction, philosophy
Notable awardsSomerset Maugham Award; Laurence Olivier Award; International Emmy Awards; Critics' Circle Theatre Awards; Tony Award; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Golden PEN Award; Whitbread Prize
SpouseGillian Palmer[1][2]
Claire Tomalin (1933–)[3][4]
Children3 daughters including
Rebecca Frayn[5]
RelativesFinn 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).

  1. ^ Gyles Brandreth (27 June 2002). "A closed book opens". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  2. ^ Hanks, Robert (17 November 2002). "Michael Frayn and Claire Tomalin: A marriage between the sheets". The Independent. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  3. ^ "The ultimate twinset: Jack and Finn Harries!". Tatler. 5 March 2013.
  4. ^ Rainey, Sarah (14 September 2012). "YouTube videos funded our gap year travels". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  5. ^ Andrew Billen (23 April 2009). "Michael Frayn on his very current Alphabetical Order". The Times. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
  6. ^ Miller, Michael W. (6 January 2016). "Michael Frayn's 'Noises Off' Returns to Broadway". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Michael Frayn British author and translator", Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 August 2017.