Alistair Owen is author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare’s Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine’s Books of the Year in the Observer) and The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft.He has written original and adapted screenplays and stageplays, on spec and to commission; contributed filmmaker interviews to Creative Screenwriting and film book reviews to the Independent on Sunday; and recently published his first novel, The Vetting Officer.Alistair has chaired Q&A events at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and London Screenwriters’ Festival; and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber’s 75th anniversary was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.His next nonfiction project is a book of conversations with bestselling author and screenwriter William Boyd, for Penguin.Find Alistair and his books on Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Goodreads and ShepherdSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.