Patrick Neate

Patrick Neate is an award-winning novelist, critic, scriptwriter and founder of literary event, Book Slam. He won the 2001 Betty Trask Award with his novel MUSUNGU JIM AND THE GREAT CHIEF TULOKO, and the 2001 Whitbread Novel Award for TWELVE BAR BLUES. His work has been published in most major UK newspapers and magazines, widely anthologised and broadcast on radio and television.

Patrick is currently writing thriller SECOND CITY for Working Title TV and feature film LEGALISE IT for Cowboy Films/ BBC Films with Kevin Macdonald attached to direct. Additional recent work includes adapting his novel CITY OF TINY LIGHTS for NDF International/ BBC Films. Pete Travis directs and Riz Ahmed and Billy Piper star. The film premiered at TIFF 2016.

Patrick’s long form poem BABEL was adapted for television by World Of Wonder/ C4 in 2004. The same piece was brought to the stage on a national tour by physical theatre company Stan Won’t Dance in 2010.