Tony Saint
{{Short description|English novelist, playwright and screenwriter}}
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Antony David Saint (born 1968, west Northumberland, England) is an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter.{{cite news |first=Leigh |last=Holmwood |title=A Free Country: BBC lines up new series by Tony Saint |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/may/29/bbc.independentproductioncompanies |work=The Guardian |date=29 May 2008 |accessdate=2008-06-05 }}
Early life
He had contact with the theatre through the People's Theatre in Heaton. Whilst at university he was guitarist in a rock band The Little Caesars.{{Cite web | title=Meet the Author UK {{!}} Search for an Author {{!}} Tony Saint {{!}} The ASBO Show | url=http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1271.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061003060532/http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1271.html | access-date=2025-02-01 | archive-date=2006-10-03}}
In 1993, he joined the UK Immigration Service where he worked for ten years. He later wrote a book, Refusal Shoes, based on this experience.{{cite web |url=http://www.serpentstail.com/author_bio?id=10475 |title=Serpent's Tail : Authors |website=www.serpentstail.com |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416220619/http://www.serpentstail.com/author_bio?id=10475 |archive-date=16 April 2009 |url-status=dead}}
Career
His credits include 2009's Micro Men (about the men and development stories behind the BBC and Sinclair home computers),{{cite news |author=Sam Wollaston |title=Micro Men |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/09/micro-men-sinclair-curry |work=The Guardian |accessdate=25 April 2012 |location=London |date=9 October 2009}} the 2008 The Long Walk to Finchley (on the early career of Margaret Thatcher),{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/themargaretthatcheryears/1584490/Lindsay-Duncan-to-play-Margaret-Thatcher.html|title = Lindsay Duncan to play Margaret Thatcher}} and one episode of The Whistleblowers in 2007 for ITV. He also wrote the 2006 TV play Service. In 2012 he wrote The Interceptor, which was broadcast on BBC One.
He wrote on the Das Boot television series, which acts as a sequel to the original film.
Personal life
He was married in April 1998 in Northumberland.
Publications
- Refusal Shoes {{ISBN|1-85242-773-6}}, July 2003 (all published by Serpent's Tail)
- Blag {{ISBN|1-85242-844-9}}, 2004
- The ASBO Show {{ISBN|1-85242-920-8}}, 2007
References
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External links
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Category:Writers from Northumberland
Category:English male novelists
Category:English television writers
Category:English screenwriters
Category:English male screenwriters
Category:English dramatists and playwrights