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Alex Shearer
Born
(1949-06-25) 25 June 1949 (age 75) Scotland
Occupation
Writer
Nationality
Scottish
Citizenship
UK
Genre
Children's picture books Scripts
Alex Shearer (born 25 June 1949) is a British novelist and scriptwriter. He was born in Wick, in the north of Scotland. Alex Shearer sold his first TV script at the age of 29, after a varied career of some 30 odd jobs.
He wrote for television, film, theatre and radio (including plays and short stories for BBC Radio 4)[1] for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.
His 2003 novel The Speed of the Dark was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[2]The Greatest Store in the World was adapted into a television film by the BBC. His novel Bootleg was adapted for a television series by the BBC, and later adapted into manga and anime under its Japanese title Chocolate Underground.[3]
^Gaisford, Sue (1997) "Radio: From Elizabeth I to Elton John ... it's the same story", The Independent, 14 September 1997, retrieved 2011-05-07
^"Teen's tale wins children's prize", BBC, 6 October 2003, retrieved 2011-05-07
^"News: Alex Shearer's Bootleg Novel Made into Manga, Anime", Anime News Network, retrieved 2011-05-07
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