Copenhagen concerned Danish physicist Niels Bohr and German scientist Werner Heisenberg, and is considered by numbers of to become Frayn's finest operate. His virtually all recent novel, Spies, won a Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002.

He was educated at Kingston Grammar School and Cambridge University.

Frayn's virtually all recent play Democracy was the immense profits within London (National Theatre, 2003-4 & West End transfer), Copenhagen (Betty Nansen Teatret, 2004) and in Broadway (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 2004-5); it dramatizes a story of German chancellor Willy Brandt and his personal supporter, a East German spy Günter Guillaume.

His more original plays include 2 evenings of short plays, "The Two of Us" & "Alarms and Excursions", a philosopical comedies "Alphabetical Order", "Benefactors", "Clouds", "Make and Break" and "Here", & a farces "Donkeys Years" & "Balmoral" (aka "Liberty Hall"). He likewise wrote a screeplay for "Clockwise", starring John Cleese, & a TV series "Making Faces", starring Elenor Bron.

He is as well andy skinner of the book of philosophy, "Constructions", & the total of novels including "Headlong", "The Tin Men" & "Now You Know".

When you took his National Service, Frayn learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists. He is nowadays considered to become Britain's finest translator of Chekhov - adaptating a quaternion major plays ("The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters" & "The Cherry Orchard") likewise as an early ungentle act, which he titled "Wild Honey" (more translations of the operate own known as it "Platanov" or even "Don Juan in the Russian Manner") & the total of Chekhov's little plays for an evening known as "The Sneeze" (orignally performed on the West Prevent by Rowan Atkinson).

Frayn's married woman is Claire Tomalin, the biographer & literary journalist.