The Writers Are Coming: Five Rising European Scribes To Watch Out For In 2024
deadline.comThis Deadline feature, now in its fourth year, seeks to spotlight the work of some of the buzziest new European writers in the business.
This year’s crop contains a former doctor, journalist and moon rock lover. Together, they are working on an eye-catching array of projects, from James Norton’s adaptation of JP Delaney’s bestselling novel Playing Nice, to Netflix and the BBC’s retelling of the Lockerbie bombing.
Our writers share a devotion to storytelling and feel passionately about ideas with a strong sense of place — be that a Welsh cave with a hidden dragon or an elite Swedish boarding school.
Scroll on for our rundown of the five Rising Writers to watch out for in 2024. It was a good news day when Grace Ofori-Attah sat down for a chat with Deadline: her ITV series Malpractice had just been renewed for a second season. “It’s obviously the dream,” she beams.
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