biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, novelist, and translator, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and first established his reputation with witty, gently satirical columns in The Manchester Guardian and The Observer, and a series of novels in the same vein, including The Russian Interpreter (1966). He wrote many plays, notably three successful comedies of the 1970s: Alphabetical Order (1975), Donkey's Years (1976), and Clouds (1976). His greatest commercial success was Noises Off (1982, filmed 1992). Benefactors (1984) received the Lawrence Olivier Award for Play of the Year. Later work includes the script for the film Clockwise (1986), the novels The Trick of It (1989), Headlong (1999), which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, and Spies (2002), and the plays Look, Look (1990), Now You Know (1995), and Copenhagen (1998, Olivier Award for Best Play), a play about atomic scientists. He has also translated and adapted work by Chekov and Tolstoy for the National Theatre. |
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