Michael Frayn
Autor(a) de 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)
Séries
Obras de Michael Frayn
Chekhov plays : The cherry orchard + The seagull + Three sisters + Uncle Vanya + vaudevilles (1988) — Translator, Introduction — 83 cópias
Speak after the beep : studies in the art of communicating with inanimate and semi-inanimate objects (1995) 19 cópias
On the Outskirts 4 cópias
The Best of Michael Frayn 1 exemplar(es)
Here [theatre programme] 1 exemplar(es)
Donkeys' Years [theatre programme] 1 exemplar(es)
Madness and Civilisation 1 exemplar(es)
Una vida muy privada 1 exemplar(es)
Copenhagen (Samuel French Acting Edition) 12th (twelfth) Edition by Frayn, Michael [2010] 1 exemplar(es)
Chinamen, a one-act comedy 1 exemplar(es)
Never put off to Gomorrah 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Seagull + Uncle Vanya + Three Sisters + The Cherry Orchard (1895) — Tradutor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 1,157 cópias
Michael Frayn: Matchbox theatre : thirty short entertainments [theatre programme] — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Michael Frayn: Democracy [theatre programme] — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Frayn, Michael
- Nome de batismo
- Frayn, Michael J.
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-09-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Mill Hill, Middlesex, England
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK (birth)
Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK - Educação
- Emmanuel College Cambridge University (BA|1957|Philosophy)
- Ocupação
- reporter (The Guardian)
translator
novelist
playwright - Relacionamentos
- Tomalin, Claire (wife)
Frayn, Rebecca (daughter) - Organizações
- The Guardian (reporter)
- Premiações
- 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) (mostrar todas 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) - Agente
- Greene and Heaton
Membros
Discussions
Skios by Michael Frayn em Booker Prize (Agosto 2013)
Resenhas
Listas
Booker Prize (3)
Pants on fire (1)
Dead narrators (1)
Sonlight Books (1)
Plays I Like (2)
Prêmios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 76
- Also by
- 11
- Membros
- 8,940
- Popularidade
- #2,689
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 255
- ISBNs
- 381
- Idiomas
- 17
- Favorito
- 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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