‘A writer of grace and luminosity’
The Stage
Barney Norris is a writer dedicated to chronicling the dignity of ordinary life. Often set in the counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire where he was raised and where he lives, but venturing as far afield as Wallsend, Manchester, the Hebrides and Paris, his twenty-one plays and quartet of novels are a reflection of contemporary England, the struggles it’s faced, and the quiet heroism of the people who live there. A complete catalogue of his work is available on this site.
He 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 his work has been translated into nine languages.
A former chair of the Society of Authors Scriptwriters Committee and member of the SoA Sustainability Committee and the Writers Guild Theatre Negotiating Team, and a former Green party general election candidate, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Oxford.
‘High on any list of the best younger British writers’
The Guardian
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