Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist Paul Torday, he was born in Northumberland and was a theatre and television producer for many years.[1][2]
His book The Dark Wild (2014) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2014.[3] After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript The Death of An Owl, Torday completed the novel.[1]
Torday's adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was performed at Wilton's Music Hall in Shadwell in east London between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018,[4] and revived at the same venue between 30 November 2018 and 5 January 2019.[5] It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company from 31 October 2023, running until 7 January 2023.
He has visited schools and libraries across the UK such as Edward Peake Middle School.
^ abPiers Torday: finishing his father’s last novel, The Guardian, 7 May 2016.
^Piers Torday website, accessed 6
March 2018
^Emily Drabble, Piers Torday wins for 'wildly inventive' adventure, The Guardian, 14 November 2014.
^"The Box of Delights". Wilton's. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
^"The Box of Delights by Piers Torday based on the novel by John Masefield". www.wiltons.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
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