Michael Farr
Michael Farr (born 1953) is a British expert on the comic series The Adventures of Tintin and its creator, Hergé. He has written several books on the subject as well as translating several others into English. A former reporter, he has also written about other subjects.
Biography
Michael Farr was born in 1953 in Paris to an Austrian-Czech mother, Hildegarde Farr (née Pisarowitz) and a British journalist father, Walter Farr. Educated at Harrow School, and then a history scholar at Trinity College Cambridge, he read Theology as his part one before changing to Fine Art in which he gained an MA. He became a reporter, first for
In 2004 Farr was interviewed on BBC News in a section on the Tintin exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.[1] He appeared in 2003 in the documentary film, Tintin and I.[citation needed] He now lives in London with his German wife and daughter.
Farr is multilingual in English, French, German and Italian. He wrote a French version of Tintin: The Complete Companion at the same time as he wrote the English version.
Bibliography
Books on Tintin
- Tintin, 60 years Of Adventure ISBN 978-2-203-00405-4
- ISBN 978-0-7195-5522-0
- Tintin & Co. ISBN 978-1-4052-3264-7
- Tintin
- Snowy
- Haddock
- Calculus
- Castafiore
- Thomson and Thompson
- Chang
- Alcazar
- Lampion
- Müller
- Rastapopoulos
- Abdullah
- The Adventures Of Hergé, Creator Of Tintin
- Tintin and the World of Hergé by Benoit Peeters
- Hergé and Tintin, Reporters by Philippe Goddin
- The Adventures of Tintin at Sea by Yves Horeau
- The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. I by Philippe Goddin
- The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. II by Philippe Goddin
- The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin, Vol. III by Philippe Goddin
- All the digital versions of App Store (the original Michael Turner and Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper translations are not used for the digital releases)[2]
- Tintin in America new 2020 Moulsinart translation for colorized edition of the original 1932 version.[3]
Other books
- Vanishing Borders
- Berlin! Berlin!
References
- ^ "Boy reporter still a global hero". BBC News. 9 January 2004.
- ^ The Adventures of Tintin go digital – Tintin in the Congo in English
- ^ [1] Michael Farr, translator of the new version of "Tintin in America" in English