Frank Cottrell Boyce
Novelist, Author
1959 –
Who is Frank Cottrell Boyce?
Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. He has recently achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming.
Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, which was commissioned by a charity.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1959
Rainhill - Also known as
- Frank Boyce
- Martin Hardy
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- Spouses
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- English people
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Keble College, Oxford
- Doctorate, University of Oxford
English Studies
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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