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Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn was born in London and began his writing career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer

His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His 17 plays range from the long-running West End farce Noises Off to the mysterious Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.

All nominated books

Headlong
Michael Frayn’s ingeniously comic art thriller about a young philosophy lecturer’s obsessive hunt for a missing masterpiece
Spies
Michael Frayn’s evocative wartime psychological drama, which revisits the confused innocence of childhood through the memories of old age
Skios
A (suit)case of mistaken identity leads to a series of absurd misadventures, as Michael Frayn exports a madcap farce to an unsuspecting Greek island