Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn, 2023
Doğum	8 Eylül 1933 Middlesex, İngiltere, Büyük Britanya
Milliyet	İngiltere
Meslek	Uzun öykü yazarı (novella), oyun yazarı, senarist

Michael Frayn (d. 8 Eylül 1933), Royal Society of Literature'nun bir üyesi, İngilizce oyun ve novella yazarıdır. Frayn'ın en çok bilinen eserleri saçma komedi türünde Noises Off, dramaları ise Copenhagen ve Democracy'dir. Michael Frayn'ın yazdığı Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong ve Spies isimli eserler başarılı eleştirilere aldı ve ticari başarılar sağladı, bu başarılar onun İngilizce yazması için teşvik etti.

Eserleri (Orijinal dilinde)

Novellaları

• The Tin Men (1965)
• The Russian Interpreter (1966)
• Towards the End of the Morning (US title: Against Entropy) (1967)
• A Very Private Life (1968)
• Sweet Dreams (1973)
• The Trick of It (1989)
• A Landing on the Sun (1991)
• Now You Know (1993)
• Headlong (1999)
• Spies (2002)
• Skios (2012)

Oyunları

• The Two of Us, four one-act plays for two actors (1970)
• Black and Silver, Mr. Foot, Chinamen, and The new Quixote
• Alphabetical Order and Donkeys' Years (1977)
• Clouds (1977)
• The Cherry Orchard trans. Chekhov (1978)
• Balmoral (1978)
• The Fruits of Enlightenment trans. Tolstoy (1979)
• Liberty Hall (1980) (revised version of Balmoral)
• Make and Break (1980)
• Noises Off (1982)
• Three Sisters trans. Chekhov (1983, revised 1988)
• Number One (1984) translated from Jean Anouilh's Le Nombril
• Benefactors (1984)
• Wild Honey trans. Chekhov (1984)
• The Seagull trans. Chekhov (1986)
• Uncle Vanya trans. Chekhov (1986)
• Balmoral (1987) (further revised version)
• The Sneeze (1988) based on short stories and plays of Chekov
• First and Last (1989)
• Exchange trans. adapted Yuri Trifonov (1990)
• Listen to This: Sketches and Monologues (1990)
• Jamie on a Flying Visit; and Birthday (1990)
• Look Look (1990)
• Audience (1991)
• Plays: Two, Methuen (1991),
• Here (1993)
• La Belle Vivette, a version of Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène (1995)
• Alarms and Excursions: More Plays than One (1998)
• Copenhagen (1998)
• Plays: Three, Methuen (2000)
• Democracy (2003)
• Afterlife (2008)
• Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments (2014) ISBN 9780571313938

Kısa hikaye

• Speak After The Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating With Inanimate and Semi-Animate Objects (1995).

Kurgusal olmayan

• The Day of the Dog, articles reprinted from The Guardian (1962).
• The Book of Fub, articles reprinted from The Guardian (1963).
• On the Outskirts, articles reprinted from The Observer (1964).
• At Bay in Gear Street, articles reprinted from The Observer (1967).
• The Original Michael Frayn, a collection of the above four, plus nineteen new Observer pieces.
• Constructions, a volume of philosophy (1974).
• Celia's Secret: An Investigation (US title The Copenhagen Papers), with David Burke (2000).
• The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of the universe (2006).
• Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre, 1970-2008 (2008),
• Travels with a Typewriter (2009),
• My Father's Fortune: A Life (2010),