Name Nigel Hinton Role Novelist | Education Dulwich College | |
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Books Buddy, Beaver Towers, 2 Die 4, Collision Course, Time Bomb Similar People Chesney Hawkes, Justin Richards, David Bischoff, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Chris Priestley | ||
Nigel Hinton - How did you become a writer?
Nigel Hinton (born 1941 in London) is an English novelist.
Contents
- Nigel Hinton How did you become a writer
- Buddy 1986 by nigel hinton scenes from episode 2
- Personal life and family
- Career
- References
Buddy 1986 by nigel hinton scenes from episode 2
Personal life and family
Nigel Hinton was born in London in 1941. He attended Dulwich College. He has been married to Rolande Lager since 1980.
Career
Hinton worked in advertising for two years, then taught English for nine years at the Hugh Christie School in Tonbridge, Kent. He then worked as a professional actor and did some part-time teaching before deciding to concentrate on writing. He has written at least twenty three novels from Collision Course (1976) to The Norris Girls (2017) including the Buddy trilogy for teenagers and the Beaver Towers stories for younger children. His novel The Finders won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award, and Collision Course won the Dutch Silver Pen Award. Out of the Darkness won the Lancashire Book Award and the Stockport Book Award. His novel Time Bomb, set in 1949 in the area he grew up, won the 2006 Rotherham Book Award. In 2014 his short novel Partners in Crime won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award. He has adapted some of his novels for the screen, notably Buddy which was made into a BBC television series, and Buddy's Song which was made into a feature film. Both films starred Roger Daltrey as Buddy's dad. He has also written a number of original scripts for TV and the theatre.
Hinton's work is used widely in schools, and Buddy has been one of the best selling novels for teenagers in the last thirty five years. Teachers particularly appreciate his novels because they appeal to a wide range of pupil ability and are even enjoyed by teenage boys who don't usually like reading. However The Norris Girls is a departure from the usual boy appeal of his previous novels in which it is written for girls and all the protagonists are female although the writing style is otherwise the same.
