‘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 and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.
He is an ambassador for Alabare Christian Care and Support; a patron of Studio Theatre and the Salisbury Literary Festival, and is standing as the Green Party candidate for Salisbury at the General Election.
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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