Kit de Waal
author
Coming Soon to BBC. The BBC has released a selection of images from upcoming adaption of award-winning novel, My Name Is Leon.
Filming has begun in Birmingham on BBC One’s adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel. Produced by Douglas Road Productions (a Banijay UK company) in association with Tiger Aspect Productions, Ringside Studios and Vicarious Productions.
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Coming Soon to BBC. The BBC has released a selection of images from upcoming adaption of award-winning novel, My Name Is Leon.
QUICK, ONLINE READS
A short story taken from Protest: Stories of Resistance.
Don’t dip your pen in someone else’s blood: writers and ‘the other’
Article from The Irish Times
Second Prize in the Bare Fiction Prize for Flash Fiction 2014.
My Irish grandmother was mistress of the stretch
Article from The Irish Times
I wanted to write about a care system that didn’t care very much
Article from The Guardian
PUBLISHED WORK
Capturing the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives.
Best selling debut novel.
A valuable anthology of working-class writers.
INTERVIEWS, CONVERSATIONS AND MORE
READ - The Times Literary Supplement, Twenty Questions with Kit de Waal
READ - The Guardian, ‘I read my first novel aged 22’
WATCH - The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Kit de Waal with Damian Barr
READ - The Guardian, 'As soon as you introduce a talking horse, I'm just not interested'
READ - The Guardian, Interview - ‘Writing’s very solitary – you do it because you want to find readers’
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