Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn is a prolific playwright, novelist, and translator. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, where he studied philosophy, Frayn worked as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian and The Observer, writing satirical and comical pieces and publishing several novels on the side. He wrote The Tin Man (1965), the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; The Russian Interpreter (1966), which was awarded the Hawthornden Prize; and Towards the End of the Morning (1967). His plays include Noises Off (1982), Benefactors (1984), and Copenhagen (1998), which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play (USA). All the while, Frayn translated many works from Russian, including plays by Chekhov and Tolstoy. He is married to Claire Tomalin, a biographer and critic.