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	BOMB Magazine: MICHAEL FRAYN
		And I was pleased that my interviewee was the prolific Michael Frayn, the author of nine clever novels (including Headlong [1999], shortlisted for the Booker Prize), 13 engaging plays (ranging from the superlative farce, Noises Off to the intriguing Copenhagen), as well as some exceptional Chekhov translations.
		Frayn, I'm phoning to confirm that I'll be interviewing you for BOMB Magazine at 5 p.m.
		I cycled up, Michael Frayn made me a cup of tea in the book-lined flat near Regent's Park he uses as an office, and after he had reminded me to plug in the microphone the interview began.
	www.bombsite.com /frayn/frayn.html (247 words)

	Michael Frayn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.
		Frayn's most recent play Democracy was a huge success in London (National Theatre, 2003-4 and West End transfer), Copenhagen (Betty Nansen Teatret, 2004) and on Broadway (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 2004-5); it dramatizes the story of German chancellor Willy Brandt and his personal assistant, the East German spy Günter Guillaume.
		Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Frayn (260 words)

	Copenhagen - Michael Frayn
		Frayn's dialogue is heavy with exposition, both dramatic and scientific, and despite some human filigree (references to the drowning death of Bohr's son), the characters remain heads in search of bodies.
		Frayn's great success is in his presentation of the material: the dialogue skips along, clever, witty, fast.
		Frayn isn't attempting to write history, and many of the issues he raises are as valid as they would be even if he got every historical aspect of the play wrong.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/fraynm/cophagen.htm (1514 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Arts \| Interview: Michael Frayn
		Michael Frayn spears a sliver of salmon that clashes with his red lambswool sweater.
		Most of Frayn's own childhood was spent in the south London suburbs with a father who was a deaf asbestos salesman, who had left school at 14, and a mother who had to give up a promising future as a violinist to become a shop assistant when her family fell on hard times.
		As Frayn tells the story, without a smile and for what must be the thousandth time, he makes you acutely aware of how heroically comic it is. "I go to great lengths to avoid farce happening to me, but I find it happens of its own accord," he has said.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/arts/story/0,9848,642291,00.html (1288 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| A serious kind of joker
		Frayn had wanted to be a writer since he was a teenager growing up in Ewell, south London, but there was nothing in the family background to suggest that he'd make it.
		Despite the horrors, Frayn's enforced departure for the state sector still prompted, "all the natural snobbery of the outer suburbs", and he was terrified of moving.
		Frayn's virtues as a comic writer were always based on his ability to evoke the instantly recognisable - the awful predicament, the common foible, the typical character.
	books.guardian.co.uk /specialreports/whitbread/story/0,6194,101774,00.html (4371 words)

	Talk is cheap in Democracy by Michael Frayn
		Michael Frayn, the author of "Democracy," has had plenty of P.R. Profiled in the "New Yorker," "The Daily News," the "Times" and in countless British publications, his play comes to New York in a blaze of good London notices.
		Frayn is one of those British authors worshiped by British intellectuals (some, not all) and is a shoe-in for Broadway producers who love heady plays provided they originate in London and receive sensational reviews.
		Frayn is sure to be devoured by the press and by those who think this is an important play.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /mc04113t.htm (1067 words)

	Powell's Books - Spies by Michael Frayn
		Master illusionist Michael Frayn powerfully demonstrates, yet again, that what appears to be happening in front of our eyes often turns out to be something we can't see at all.
		In gripping prose charged with emotional intensity, this national bestseller by the author of Headlong reaches into the moral confusion of two boys in wartime London to reveal a reality filled with deceptions and betrayals, where the bonds of friendship, marriage, and family are unraveled by cowardice and erotic desire.
		Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0312421176-10 (823 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Copenhagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frayn's cunning conceit is to use the scientific underpinnings of atomic physics, from Schrödinger's famous cat to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, to explore how an individual's point of view renders attempts to discover the ultimate truth of any human interaction fundamentally impossible.
		Michael Frayn imagines that the three, the Bohrs and Werner Heisenberg meet in after-life to re-live the fateful 1941 encounter, and to resolve WH's motives for his Copenhagen visit; a visit that clearly ended a long and deep friendship.
		Frayn uses these two great minds to introduce the audience into the realm of advanced physics and the moral ambiguities involved in the mixing of pure science with the nature of war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385720793?v=glance (3076 words)

	Alibris: Michael Frayn
		Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play about the troupe of actors struggling to put on a production of a play called NOTHING ON, in which backstage and onstage begin to merge--disastrously.
		Michael Frayn was staging his now-famous play COPENHAGEN, about the 1941 meeting between Nazi scientist Werner Heisenberg and physicist Neils Bohr, when mysteriously a strange batch of letters concerning Nazi-era scientific research arrived in the playwright's mail.
		Frayn once again creates out of the known events of 20th-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966 and those of his political circle.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Frayn,Michael (635 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Headlong : A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frayn, a highly successful playwright (Noises Off) as well as a novelist of note (A Landing on the Sun; Now You Know), is an odd combination of skilled farceur and scholar, and these strands in his work seem somewhat at odds in this new novel, his first in six years.
		Frayn is wonderfully funny about English country life, the mustier byways of art history, the art auction business and the deviousness that lurks within apparently mild-mannered art historians.
		Frayn's novel is yet another fictionalization of the pleasures of scholarship, resonating with the same sorts of delight which informed Byatt's POSSESSION, Barnes's FLAUBERT'S PARROT, Hollinghurst's THE FOLDING STAR, Stoppard's play ARCADIA, and on and on and on.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312267460?v=glance (2061 words)

	Bulletin - Michael Frayn: The writer's art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Keen to ensure that the masterpiece he believes he’s discovered remains in Britain and on public display, Clay is also driven by a desire to make his reputation as an art historian and to free himself forever of financial burdens.
		Frayn contends that the mystery of that conversation, and of Heisenberg’s motives, parallel the uncertainty principle the physicist introduced into quantum mechanics in the 1920s.
		Wartime in Frayn’s memory was a Boy’s Own adventure, a welcome distraction from the humdrum existence of life in the suburbs.
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	Michael Frayn
		Playwright, novelist and translator Michael Frayn was born in London on 8 September 1933.
		Michael Frayn is also the recipient of the 2002 Heywood Hill Literary Prize.
		Michael Frayn is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth114 (1655 words)

	Spies - Michael Frayn - Review - Privet Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Michael Frayn, 70 this year, has written 10 novels, a dozen or so plays, and several translations of Chekhov.
		Frayn moves easily from the past tense, third-person memories of the elderly Stephen, to the present-tense, first-person of his wartime self.
		Frayn expertly dissects the nuances of Stephen's meek submission to his domineering friend.
	www.ciao.co.uk /Spies__Review_5330042 (830 words)

	An Introduction to Michael Frayn's Copenhagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Much of that discussion focuses, naturally enough, on the historical record upon which so much of the play is based, and, as often as not, that historical record receives more attention than the play itself, or else the play becomes assessed in terms of that historical record.
		Why is Frayn's fiction so keen to overdetermine the actions of Heisenberg without leaving us a clearer interpretative line through them (as a detective like Maigret or Hercule Poirot would do for us in the final section of a mystery story).
		In fact, Frayn's play is obviously (but delightfully) linking Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, a basic claim about modern Quantum Physics, with the human ability to understand anything, especially human conduct.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/introser/frayn.htm (4288 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Spies by Michael Frayn
		Frayn's amazing ability to recreate the mind of a young boy - fraught with insecurity, new emotions, and complicated loyalties - also lends tension to the story.
		Frayn captures all of the fear and excitement of childhood; the in-securities of fitting in with friends and interacting with family; the awkward age where you are not sure if girls are weird or wonderful; the pull of loyalty and fear.
		Frayn doesn't lose any style points either, as his writing is elegant and tight.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/04/29/193839.php (1485 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Spies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frayn skilfully manipulates his plot so that the reader's growing awareness of the truth remains just a few steps beyond Stephen's dawning realisation that he is trespassing on painful and dangerous territory.
		This is a much sparer and less expansive book than Headlong, Frayn's Booker Prize-shortlisted 1999 novel, more understated in its wit, but it is, in many ways, more compelling.--Nick Rennison --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		Frayn delivers a wonderful read, in what i would deem his best work of fiction to date.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571212964 (1199 words)

	Michael Frayn CV at PFD
		Michael Frayn was born in 1933, in the suburbs of London.
		Michael adapted his novel, NOW YOU KNOW, for the stage which opened at the Hampstead Theatre in 1995 and toured the UK in the spring of 1996.
		Michael's latest play, DEMOCRACY, opened to great critical acclaim in the Cottesloe at the National Theatre and transferred to the Lyttelton before moving to the West End in April 2004.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/fraynm/h-pwr.html (657 words)

	Michael Frayn's Next Big Reaction (washingtonpost.com)
		Michael Frayn seemed unfazed on Nov. 1, just two days before the first Broadway preview of his newest London hit, "Democracy." Tall, lean and friendly, the 71-year-old dramatist ("Copenhagen," "Noises Off") and author ("Spies") chatted in his room at Washington's brainy, exclusive Cosmos Club.
		Frayn had Amtrakked from New York for an evening at Theatre J, where later that night he would discuss his play with The Washington Post's chief drama critic, Peter Marks, before a full house.
		Michael Frayn doesn't expect "Democracy" to cause the kind of stir that "Copenhagen" did.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35486-2004Nov8.html (1060 words)

	Press Information: Free Programs by Michael Frayn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frayn, author of such plays as Noises Off and Copenhagen, has selected the scenes for both programs and will discuss his work at the first event.
		Frayn will give a general introduction about his work and introduce each scene.
		Frayn’s translations of The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, The Sneeze, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, and Wild Honey.
	www.nypl.org /press/lpafraynprogram.cfm (522 words)

	National Theatre : Platform Papers : Michael Frayn on Democracy
		MF Yes, one of the major areas of research on the play was Michael and I trying to work out how many plays we had actually done together.
		Michael is always the second person I show it to.
		Michael asks me stupid questions, like, “Why does she say that?” and I say “It’s obvious why she says that.” Then I realise it’s not so obvious, so I say, “All right, I’ll take it out.” He usually persuades me to do a certain amount of re-writing, but it’s usually particularly to do with simplification.
	www.nationaltheatre.org.uk /?lid=7664 (4932 words)

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