 Michael Frayn (born 1933) is among other playwrights noted for their use of language and ideas.He is also a novelist.He has written a number of novels, including, "The Tin Men", which won the 1966 Somerset Maugham Award), "The Russian Interpreter" (1967, Hawthornden Prize), and "Spies", which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction in 2002.