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 Reuters and then the Daily Telegraph, travelling around the world as a foreign correspondent. 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.
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
- Tintin: The Complete Companion 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 The Adventures of Tintin released via Moulinsart's official Tintin app in Apple's 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
External links
- Official website
- v
- t
- e
of Tintin
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930)
- Tintin in the Congo (1931)
- Tintin in America (1932)
- Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934)
- The Blue Lotus (1936)
- The Broken Ear (1937)
- The Black Island (1938)
- King Ottokar's Sceptre (1939)
- The Crab with the Golden Claws (1941)
- The Shooting Star (1942)
- The Secret of the Unicorn (1943)
- Red Rackham's Treasure (1944)
- The Seven Crystal Balls (1948)
- Prisoners of the Sun (1949)
- Land of Black Gold (1950)
- Destination Moon (1953)
- Explorers on the Moon (1954)
- The Calculus Affair (1956)
- The Red Sea Sharks (1958)
- Tintin in Tibet (1960)
- The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
- Flight 714 to Sydney (1968)
- Tintin and the Picaros (1976)
- Tintin and Alph-Art (1986, unfinished)
- Le Thermozéro (unfinished, unpublished)
- Borduria
- Marlinspike Hall
- Syldavia
- The Unicorn
- Other settings
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- Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (1962–66)
- The Adventures of Tintin (1991–92)
- I, Tintin (1976)
- Tintin and I (2003)
- The Mystery of the Blue Diamond (1941)
- Mr. Boullock's Disappearance (1941)
- Kuifje – De Zonnetempel (De Musical) (2001)
- Tintin – Le Temple du Soleil – Le Spectacle Musical (2002)
- Tintin on the Moon (1987)
- Tintin in Tibet (1996)
- Prisoners of the Sun (1997)
- Tintin: Destination Adventure (2001)
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011)
and memorabilia
of Hergé
- Studios Hergé
- Bob de Moor
- Edgar P. Jacobs
- Jacques Martin
- Greg
- Roger Leloup
- Josette Baujot
- Jacques Van Melkebeke
- Zhang Chongren
- Michael Farr
- Philippe Goddin
- Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier
- Tom McCarthy
- Benoît Peeters
- Yves Rodier
- Numa Sadoul
- Harry Thompson
- Category