Michael Frayn

British journalist · United Kingdom · Journalists · Born 1933 · age 93

Michael Frayn is read about 175 times a day, in 21 languages.

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Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy.

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2002Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeAward2000Tony Award for Best PlayAward1991“I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.”In their wordsSummerchild in A Landing on the Sun (1991), p. 142.Read the whole statement

1986“It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.”In their wordsClockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.Read the whole statement

1983“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”In their wordsJames Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.Read the whole statement

1966Hawthornden PrizeAwardSomerset Maugham AwardAward1965“To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.”In their words8 August 1965The Observer, 8 August 1965Read the whole statement

1933Born8 September 1933

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I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.
1991, Summerchild in A Landing on the Sun (1991), p. 142., Own words
It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.
1986, Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65., Own words
If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
1983, James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67., Own words