Michael Frayn

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Michael Frayn


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
September 08, 1933

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Michael Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off 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. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.

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Average rating: 3.81 · 43,079 ratings · 3,157 reviews · 113 distinct worksSimilar authors
Noises Off: A Play in Three...

4.19 avg rating — 15,436 ratings — published 1982 — 24 editions
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Copenhagen

3.92 avg rating — 6,885 ratings — published 1998 — 58 editions
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Spies

3.55 avg rating — 6,421 ratings — published 2002 — 84 editions
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Headlong

3.66 avg rating — 5,013 ratings — published 1999 — 56 editions
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Skios

3.08 avg rating — 4,184 ratings — published 2012 — 37 editions
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Towards the End of the Morning

3.63 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1967 — 13 editions
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A Landing on the Sun

3.66 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1991 — 16 editions
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The Tin Men

3.51 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 1965 — 39 editions
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The Trick of It

3.54 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1989 — 21 editions
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My Father's Fortune

3.85 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions
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“Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums”
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

“I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.”
Michael Frayn Noises Off

“Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.”
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen



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