The perfect gift for 2020 - the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney's bestselling novel.
Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends
and Normal People.
Alice Birch is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose
recent plays include [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse/Clean Break),
Orlando (Schaubuhne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court
Theatre). Birch wrote on the TV adaptation of Normal People,
alongside Sally Rooney and Mark O'Rowe, for which she and Rooney
were nominated for an Emmy. She also worked as Story Editor on
Season 2 of Succession for HBO and is currently developing a series
for Annapurna and Amazon with Rachel Weisz. Her first feature was
Lady Macbeth which won five British Independent Film Awards in 2017
including Best Screenplay. Her second feature will be an adaptation
of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and
Film4. Other awards include: winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize 2018 and the George Devine Award (for Revolt. She said.
Revolt again), and the Arts Foundation Award for Playwriting.
Mark O'Rowe is a playwright and writer for film and television. His
plays include Howie the Rookie (winner of the George Devine Award),
Made in China, Crestfall, Terminus, Our Few and Evil Days (winner
of Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards) and The
Approach. O'Rowe won an IFTA Award for his screenplay for
Intermission directed by John Crowley, and further collaborated
with Crowley on the BAFTA-winning Boy A. O'Rowe's third film,
Perrier's Bounty, was nominated for three IFTAs and his adaptation
of Daniel Clay's novel Broken won Best Independent Feature at the
BIFAs in 2012. He also wrote and directed The Delinquent Season
starring Cillian Murphy and Andrew Scott. For television, O'Rowe
has written Temple starring Mark Strong for Sky, and Episode 11 of
Normal People for the BBC and Hulu.
'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian
'A beautiful, pitch-perfect adaptation.' - Independent
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