‘A writer of grace and luminosity’
The Stage
Barney Norris is a writer and theatremaker. His novels include Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent. His plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Wellspring and adaptations of Lorca’s Blood Wedding and Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.
His work has received the International Theatre Institute’s Award for Excellence, the Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, a South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Award, an Evening Standard Progress 1000 Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Northern Ireland One Book Award, and been translated into nine languages.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, teaches creative writing at the University of Oxford, regularly reviews fiction for the Guardian and writes about writing for The Author.
He is an ambassador for Alabare Christian Care and Support, a charity supporting homeless adults, young people, veterans and those with learning disabilities based in his home city of Salisbury; a patron of Studio Theatre, Salisbury’s amateur theatre; and of the Salisbury Literary Festival, and the coordinator of Salisbury Green Party.
His advocacy work for writers and writing currently includes serving as Chair of the Society of Authors’ Scriptwriters Panel and a member of the SoA Sustainability Committee, and as a member of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Negotiating Team.
‘High on any list of the best younger British writers’
The Guardian
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