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Michael Frayn

1933 - Today

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Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Frayn has received more than 508,668 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Michael Frayn is the 5,124th most popular writer (down from 4,398th in 2019), the 4,017th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,373rd in 2019) and the 452nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 19

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  • 2.76

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  • 3.19

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Frayn ranks 5,124 out of 5,755Before him are Arnulf Øverland, Memnon of Heraclea, Frank O'Hara, Mirdza Ķempe, Georgy Ivanov, and Margaret Mahy. After him are Þórbergur Þórðarson, John Esposito, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Nathan Zach, F. Sionil José, and Gevorg Emin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Michael Frayn ranks 365Before him are Robert Goulet, Tim Conway, Judah Folkman, Pedro Cubilla, Severino Poletto, and Johnny Unitas. After him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Valentina Rastvorova, Neale Fraser, Scotty Bowman, Peter Arundell, and Mike Larrabee.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Frayn ranks 4,017 out of 7,765Before him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), John Loder (1898), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Carole Shelley (1939), Theo Walcott (1989), and Juliet Mills (1941). After him are Mick Rock (1948), William Hopkins (1793), David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905), Scott Speedman (1975), H. B. Warner (1876), and Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Michael Frayn ranks 452Before him are Susanna Clarke (1959), Barbara Pym (1913), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Richard K. Morgan (1965), Susan Blackmore (1951), and Jeanette Winterson (1959). After him are Alan Woods (1944), Izaak Walton (1593), Frederick Rolfe (1860), Bruno Heller (1960), Roger Ascham (1515), and Gilbert Adair (1944).