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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian; [ a], Armenian: Տիգրան Գույումճյան, 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England, publishing the best-selling novel The ...
Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) [1] is an American writer, primarily of non-fiction and personal history, as well as a longtime staff writer and television critic for The New Yorker.
Jun 19, 2024 · Michael Arlen was a British author whose novels and short stories epitomized the brittle gaiety and underlying cynicism and disillusionment of fashionable post-World War I London society. The son of an Armenian merchant, Arlen was brought up in England, to which his father had escaped to avoid.
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About Michael Arlen: Original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian. Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greate...
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The son of the prominent Anglo-Armenian writer, Michael Arlen. He is the author of Exiles and the critically acclaimed Passage to Ararat, both of which are autobiographical narratives of Arlen's Armenian ancestry.
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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian; 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England, publishing the best-selling novel The Green Hat in 1924.
May 10, 2024 · May 10, 2024. Read this issue. In November 1933 Virginia Woolf had her one and only encounter with the popular novelist Michael Arlen. Mary Hutchinson, a mutual friend, had organized a dinner party with the mischievous intent of bringing these two literary lions together.
