WRITER

Michael Arlen

1895 - 1956

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Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian;, Armenian: Տիգրան Գոյումճեան, 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. Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, but he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America", which was filmed in 1948 as The Fatal Night, and again in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Arlen is the 6,540th most popular writer (down from 6,233rd in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 270th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Bulgarian Writer.

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Among writers, Michael Arlen ranks 6,540 out of 7,302. Before him are Ravindra Kelekar, Reiko Yoshida, Norman Podhoretz, Graciano Rocchigiani, Lidija Dimkovska, and George Peele. After him are William Kennedy, Dmitry Bykov, Annie Dillard, Kofi Awoonor, Coventry Patmore, and Nambi Narayanan.

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Among people born in 1895, Michael Arlen ranks 309. Before him are Louise Fazenda, Edward Brophy, Beattie Ramsay, Alexander Aitken, Dorothy Davenport, and William Boyd. After him are William Grant Still, Sylvia Lance Harper, Whina Cooper, Frank Fredrickson, Rex Ingram, and Nat Pendleton. Among people deceased in 1956, Michael Arlen ranks 226. Before him are Sam Langford, Margaret Wycherly, Clarence Birdseye, Ivan Dresser, Elsie Janis, and Holmes Herbert. After him are Ernst Loof, Walt Faulkner, Guy Kibbee, Fred Allen, Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, and Ralph Morgan.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Michael Arlen ranks 293 out of 415. Before him are Albena Denkova (1974), Kubrat Pulev (1981), Zhivko Gospodinov (1957), Antoaneta Stefanova (1979), Plamen Markov (1957), and Yordanka Fandakova (1962). After him are Yordan Yovchev (1973), Ivailo Marinov (1960), Valeri Bojinov (1986), Nikolina Shtereva (1955), Nikolay Iliev (1964), and Ivaylo Yordanov (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Bulgaria

Among writers born in Bulgaria, Michael Arlen ranks 33. Before him are Kostas Varnalis (1884), Stanislav Stratiev (1941), Yordan Yovkov (1880), Anton Donchev (1930), Yordan Radichkov (1929), and Dimitar Dimov (1909). After him are Ilija Trojanow (1965).

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