Name Guy Burt Role Author | Spouse Chon Tejedor Movies The Hole, Ghostboat | |
Nominations Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay Books After the Hole, Dandelion Clock, The hole, A clock without hands, Sophie Similar People Nick Hamm, Stuart Orme, David Jason | ||
Guy burt harriet s army wins writer bafta children s awards 2015
Guy Burt (born 31 May 1972) is an English author and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter.
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Early life
Burt wrote his first novel during his gap year from school, when he was 18. He read English literature at Oxford University and eventually became a teacher, although he left after five years so he could pursue full-time writing.
Career
Burt is best known for his debut novel, After the Hole (1993), a psychological horror story about a group of private school students trapped in an underground bunker, seemingly locked in by a deranged, sociopathic classmate. He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994 for this work, which was adapted into the film, The Hole (2001), starring Thora Birch and Daniel Brocklebank. He has since published two more novels, Sophie (1994) and The Dandelion Clock (1999).
Burt has also written for television, including episodes of Afterlife, Diamond Geezer, Ghostboat, Kingdom, Murder in Mind, The Bletchley Circle, The Borgias, and Wire in the Blood. In 2016 he wrote Tutankhamun for ITV and won a Best Writer BAFTA for the children's drama Harriet's Army.