The film of his play, NOISES OFF was produced by Disney. His second film, FIRST AND LAST, won an International Emmy Award in 1990. MATCHBOX THEATRE had its world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in 2015.ĬLOCKWISE, his first film, was released in 1986 starring John Cleese. He has translated Tolstoy's FRUITS OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Yuri Trifonov's EXCHANGE and Anouilh's NUMBER ONE. These, with the exception of PLOTS, were staged collectively as THE SNEEZE. He has also translated four of his one-act plays - THE EVILS OF TOBACCO, SWAN SONG, THE BEAR and THE PROPOSAL and adapted five short stories DRAMA, THE ALIEN CORN, THE SNEEZE, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, SWAN SONG and PLOTS for the stage. He has translated four of Chekhov's full-length plays - THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THREE SISTERS, THE SEAGULL and UNCLE VANYA and adapted Chekhov's first, untitled play as WILD HONEY. ALPHABETICAL ORDER, MAKE AND BREAK and NOISES OFF all received BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR awards, whilst BENEFACTORS was named BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR.

He has written a number of plays for television, and for the stage his work includes THE TWO OF US, ALPHABETICAL ORDER, DONKEYS' YEARS, CLOUDS, BALMORAL (LIBERTY HALL), MAKE AND BREAK NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS, LOOK LOOK and HERE. For books enquiries please contact Carol Heaton at Greene & Heaton. STAGE DIRECTIONS followed - a collection of his prefaces and postscripts also published by Faber and his latest non-fiction book, MY FATHER'S FORTUNE, was published by Faber in September 2010. Michael's book about philosophy THE HUMAN TOUCH was published by Faber in 2006. He has published ten novels - THE TIN MEN, THE RUSSIAN INTERPRETER, AGAINST ENTROPY, TOWARDS THE END OF THE MORNING, A VERY PRIVATE LIFE, SWEET DREAMS, THE TRICK OF IT, A LANDING ON THE SUN, NOW YOU KNOW, HEADLONG, SPIES and SKIOS, together with two philosophical works, CONSTRUCTIONS and THE HUMAN TOUCH. He has written and presented a series of personal films for BBC Television on Berlin, Vienna, Australia Jerusalem, Prague, and the London suburbs in which he grew up. He began his career as a reporter on The Guardian, then became a columnist on that paper from 1959 to 1962, and for The Observer from 1962 to 1968.įor some years after leaving The Observer, he continued to contribute features to the paper on foreign countries, among them Cuba, Israel, Japan and Sweden and has been writing a column for The Guardian. Michael Frayn was born in 1933, in the suburbs of London.

My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn