Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz

Contributions

RTI (Kids’ Night In 2)

Biography

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. He regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines on subjects ranging from politics to education.

Anthony has written over 40 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider adapted by him into a movie. The Alex Rider series is estimated to have sold over 19 million copies worldwide. His highly anticipated novel, Oblivion (2012) was the epic conclusion to the Power of Five series,

He is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate and Orion Books to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels. The House of Silk (2011) and its sequel, Moriarty (2014) was internationally lauded. He was also commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novels Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day(2018) .A third Bond novel is due for publication in May 2022

He has created and written some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of (British Academy of Film and Television award-winning) drama series Foyle’s War,

He has also written other original complex dramas for ITV, particularly thrillers. Collision, a major five part “state of the nation” piece was transmitted to seven million ITV viewers a night. He followed this with the equally successful legal thriller Injustice( 2011)

Foyle’s War returned to TV in 2013 as a Cold War thriller and was greeted with such critical acclaim and demands for more that he wrote one concluding series in 2015. The following year his series New Blood premiered, unusually first appearing on the online BBC I-Player.

Anthony is on the board of the Old Vic Theatre in London. He has been a patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices and the anti-bullying charity, Kidscape, since 2008 and in 2019 e became a Patron to Home-Start in Suffolk, a small local family support charity.

He was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature in 2014.He lives in Suffolk and London, England with his wife, Jill Green and they have two sons.

Contributions

RTI (Kids’ Night In 2)

Biography

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. He regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines on subjects ranging from politics to education.

Anthony has written over 40 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider adapted by him into a movie. The Alex Rider series is estimated to have sold over 19 million copies worldwide. His highly anticipated novel, Oblivion (2012) was the epic conclusion to the Power of Five series,

He is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate and Orion Books to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels. The House of Silk (2011) and its sequel, Moriarty (2014) was internationally lauded. He was also commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novels Trigger Mortis (2015) and Forever and a Day(2018) .A third Bond novel is due for publication in May 2022

He has created and written some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of (British Academy of Film and Television award-winning) drama series Foyle’s War,

He has also written other original complex dramas for ITV, particularly thrillers. Collision, a major five part “state of the nation” piece was transmitted to seven million ITV viewers a night. He followed this with the equally successful legal thriller Injustice( 2011)

Foyle’s War returned to TV in 2013 as a Cold War thriller and was greeted with such critical acclaim and demands for more that he wrote one concluding series in 2015. The following year his series New Blood premiered, unusually first appearing on the online BBC I-Player.

Anthony is on the board of the Old Vic Theatre in London. He has been a patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices and the anti-bullying charity, Kidscape, since 2008 and in 2019 e became a Patron to Home-Start in Suffolk, a small local family support charity.

He was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to literature in 2014.He lives in Suffolk and London, England with his wife, Jill Green and they have two sons.