Alistair Owen

Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters and Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer).

He has chaired Q&A events at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and London Screenwriters' Festival, and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary was published in Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.

Alistair has written original and adapted screenplays, on spec and to commission; contributed film reviews to Time Out and film book reviews to the Independent on Sunday; and recently published his first novel, The Vetting Officer.

His next nonfiction project is a book of conversations with novelist, screenwriter, playwright and director William Boyd, for Penguin.

Alistair Owen in conversation with Olivia Hetreed

Alistair Owen in conversation with Sarah Phelps

Alistair Owen in conversation with Deborah Moggach

Alistair Owen in conversation with Christopher Hampton

Alistair Owen in conversation with Lucinda Coxon

Moira Buffini in conversation with Alistair Owen

Alistair Owen in conversation with David Nicholls

Alistair Owen talks about The Art of Screen Adaptation on BBC London Radio