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Frank Cottrell Boyce is the award-winning screenwriter lauded for writing the script for the famous Madchester film 24 Hour Party People, as well as many episodes of Coronation Street and Brookside.
Born in Rainhill, near St Helens, he studied at Oxford University before going on to pen the screenplays for Butterfly Kiss, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Claim, Code 46 and a Cock and Bull Story, all produced by Michael Winterbottom.
The husband and father-of-seven, who was praised highly by the celebrated American critic Roger Ebert, has worked with the acclaimed film directors Danny Boyle (of Slum Dog Millionnaire fame), Alex Cox, Richard Laxton and Anand Tucker.
As well as writing original scripts, he has produced several film adaptations as well as children's fiction, and won the Carnegie Medal in 2004 for his debut Million, based on his own screenplay for the film of the same name. His novel Framed, which he adapted for a 2009 BBC television film, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal. His 2009 novel Cosmic was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
In 2008, during Liverpool's year-long European Capital of Culture reign, Frank wrote his first theatre production Proper Clever, which he staged at the Liverpool Playhouse.
