‘A writer of grace and luminosity’
The Stage
Barney Norris’s plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Wellspring and The Band Back Together. His adaptations for the stage include Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Second Best by David Foenkinos. His novels include Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain and Undercurrent.
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, the Northern Ireland One Book Award and a Hawthornden Literary Foundation 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.
In 2026, his new book for Sting’s The Last Ship will tour the world.
‘High on any list of the best younger British writers’
The Guardian
Barney Norris 