Michael Frayn
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A propos de l'auteur
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)
Séries
Œuvres de Michael Frayn
Chekhov plays : The cherry orchard + The seagull + Three sisters + Uncle Vanya + vaudevilles (1988) — Translator, Introduction — 83 exemplaires
Plays: 1 (Alphabetical Order; Donkeys' Years; Clouds; Make and Break; Noises Off) (1744) 54 exemplaires
Speak after the beep : studies in the art of communicating with inanimate and semi-inanimate objects (1995) 19 exemplaires
On the Outskirts 4 exemplaires
The Best of Michael Frayn 1 exemplaire
Here [theatre programme] 1 exemplaire
Donkeys' Years [theatre programme] 1 exemplaire
Madness and Civilisation 1 exemplaire
Una vida muy privada 1 exemplaire
Copenhagen (Samuel French Acting Edition) 12th (twelfth) Edition by Frayn, Michael [2010] 1 exemplaire
Chinamen, a one-act comedy 1 exemplaire
Never put off to Gomorrah 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
La Mouette / L'Oncle Vania / Les Trois Sœurs / La Cerisaie (1895) — Traducteur, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,160 exemplaires
Methuen Student Editions : Chekhov : The Cherry Orchard {Frayn} (1995) — Traducteur — 28 exemplaires
Michael Frayn: Matchbox theatre : thirty short entertainments [theatre programme] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Michael Frayn: Democracy [theatre programme] — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Frayn, Michael
- Nom légal
- Frayn, Michael J.
- Date de naissance
- 1933-09-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Royaume-Uni
- Lieu de naissance
- Mill Hill, Middlesex, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK (birth)
Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK - Études
- Emmanuel College Cambridge University (BA|1957|Philosophy)
- Professions
- reporter (The Guardian)
translator
novelist
playwright - Relations
- Tomalin, Claire (wife)
Frayn, Rebecca (daughter) - Organisations
- The Guardian (reporter)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) (tout afficher 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
Membres
Discussions
Skios by Michael Frayn à Booker Prize (Août 2013)
Critiques
Listes
Sonlight Books (1)
Pants on fire (1)
Dead narrators (1)
Booker Prize (3)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 76
- Aussi par
- 11
- Membres
- 8,942
- Popularité
- #2,689
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 255
- ISBN
- 381
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 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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