Barney Norris

Departmental Lecturer in Lifelong Learning (Creative Writing: Fiction or Cross-Genre)

Biography

Barney Norris is a Departmental Lecturer in Lifelong Learning (Creative Writing: Fiction or Cross-Genre) at the Department for Continuing Education and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His work has received awards from the International Theatre Institute, the Critics’ Circle, the Evening Standard, the Society of Authors and the South Bank Sky Arts Times Breakthrough Awards, among others, and been translated into nine languages. His plays include Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall, The Band Back Together and an acclaimed adaptation of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day; his novels include the bestselling Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain and the acclaimed Undercurrent.

Research and teaching interests

• Creative writing
• Playwriting
• Novel writing
• Contemporary theatre
• Life writing
• Sense of place
• Environmental literature
• The theatre of Peter Gill and Athol Fugard