Author: Alistair Owen

Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters and Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer). He has chaired Q&A events at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and London Screenwriters' Festival, and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary was published in Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre. Alistair has written original and adapted screenplays, on spec and to commission; contributed film reviews to Time Out and film book reviews to the Independent on Sunday; and recently completed his first novel, The Vetting Officer. His next nonfiction project is a book of conversations with novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director William Boyd, for Penguin.