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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian;, Armenian: Տիգրան Գույումճյան, 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter.
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.
Michael John Arlen (born December 9, 1930, London, England) 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.
About Michael Arlen: Original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian. Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greate...
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.
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.
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. Given Woolf’s disdain for “middlebrow” fiction, this was never going to end well. In awe of his […]
