Edward Docx
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Edward Docx began his writing career as a novelist and political journalist. He began screenwriting in 2018.
Most recently, he has been working on the last two seasons of SLOW HORSES for Apple TV.
Prior to that, Ed worked with Andrew Davies on political series DOWNING STREET - originating the first series and working on the pilot. ITV drama commissioned Ed to write a three-part series - THE PEAK (based on one of his articles) about the peak period of Covid. Ed has also co-written two screenplays with the Australian writer/director of Muriel’s Wedding, PJ Hogan. And he has written three full length solo screenplays – most recently an adaptation of his own fourth novel – LET GO MY HAND - to be produced by Kevin Loader. He has worked with various UK producers and writers uncredited – as originator, screen-doctor and in writers’ rooms.
He now has two projects in development as show runner – one bought by Armando Iannucci and the other by Simon Maxwell at Motive Pictures.
His novels are translated into two dozen languages, published by Picador in the UK and Houghton Mifflin in the USA. He has been long-listed for The Booker Prize and won The Geoffrey Faber with his second novel. Ed’s fiction has been compared to writers as diverse as Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Coetzee and is noted for its vitality and the attention given to character. The New York Times has described him as 'fiendishly clever' and the The New Yorker says that "Docx has a gift for assessing the exact shape and weight of other people’s inner selves, the architecture of their spirit and even his most ancillary characters flare into being, vital and insistent."
In the UK, his journalism most often appears in the Guardian and the New Statesman. He was short-listed for The George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2012. He was short-listed in 2014 for the Foreign Press Association Feature of the Year. In 2015, he was long-listed for the George Orwell Rowntree. Ed has previously worked in and around Westminster and has written on most of the leading political figures.