This 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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