with Michael Frayn on Nov 5, 2004
with Michael Frayn on Jun 14, 2000
with Michael Frayn on Apr 13, 2000
Playwright, novelist and translator Michael Frayn was born in London on 8 September 1933. He worked as a reporter and columnist for “The Guardian” and “The Observer,” publishing several novels including “The Tin Men” (1965), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, “The Russian Interpreter” (1966), which won the Hawthornden Prize, and “Towards the End of the Morning” (1967). More recent novels include “A Landing on the Sun” (1991), which won the “Sunday Express” Book of the Year and “Headlong” (1999), shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. His novel, “Spies” (2002), won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region, Best Book), and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year. Michael Frayn is also the recipient of the 2002 Heywood Hill Literary Prize.
His plays include “Alphabetical Order” (1975), “Clouds” (1976), “Donkeys’ Years” (1977), “Make or Break” (1980), “Noises Off” (1982) and “Benefactors” (1984). “Copenhagen” (1998) won the 1998 “Evening Standard Award” for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play (USA). His latest play is “Democracy” (2003), set in 1960s Berlin. His latest book is a work of non-fiction, “The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe” (2006).
Source: http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth114
