Michael Farr

Michael Farr is a British expert on the comic series 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 Karoline Maria Louise Farr (née Pisarowitz) and a British journalist father, Walter George Farr. Educated at Harrow School^{[citation needed]}, and then a history scholar at Trinity College Cambridge^{[citation needed]}, he read Theology as his part one before changing to Fine Art in which he gained an MA^{[citation needed]}. He became a reporter, first for Reuters^{[citation needed]} and then the Daily Telegraph, travelling around the world as a foreign correspondent^{[citation needed]}. After meeting Hergé, Farr started writing books about Tintin. Farr was the first to gain full access to the files and material Hergé had used in developing the Tintin stories, for his book Tintin: The Complete Companion.^{[citation needed]}

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 film documentary, Tintin and I^[2]. He now lives in London with his German wife and daughter.

Farr is multilingual in English, German, French and Italian^{[citation needed]}. 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 978-2203004054
• Tintin: The Complete Companion ISBN 978-0719555220
• Tintin & Co. ISBN 978-1405232647
• Tintin
• Snowy
• Haddock
• Calculus
• Castafiore
• The Thompsons
• Chang
• Alcazar
• Lampion
• Müller
• Rastapopoulos
• Abdullah
• The Adventures Of Hergé, Creator Of Tintin

Tintin-related books translated into English

• 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

Other books

• Vanishing Borders
• Berlin! Berlin!

References

1. ^ "Boy reporter still a global hero". BBC News. 9 January 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3382633.stm. 
2. ^ Michael Farr at the Internet Movie Database

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