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Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as showrunner, writer and executive producer of the drug and gang-related crime drama television series Top Boy.
Apr 15, 2024 · The creator of Top Boy, a critically acclaimed series about the lives and crimes of young Black men in London, reflects on his personal and artistic journey. He shares how his own experience of imprisonment and interrogation influenced his writing, and how he coped with the media attention and the murder investigation.
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Ronan Bennett is a Northern Irish writer and producer, known for Top Boy, Public Enemies and Gunpowder. He has been nominated for a BAFTA Award and has worked on various TV series and movies since 1993.
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Aug 31, 2019 · The screenwriter finished series two of his east London drama as his wife, Georgina, was dying. Then Channel 4 cancelled it. Now, thanks to Drake and Netflix, it’s back. Read an interview with Top...
Jul 3, 2007 · Novelist Ronan Bennett endured two stints in British prisons before he ever imagined himself a writer. He was young then, and wrongly accused of crimes committed by the Irish Republican Army....
Jan 20, 2024 · Sat Jan 20 2024 - 05:30. Eighteen years after the publication of his previous novel, Zugzwang, the Belfast-born author Ronan Bennett returns with Jaq: A Top Boy Story. As literary hiatuses go,...
Sep 7, 2023 · Screenwriter Ronan Bennett, who conceived of the show’s premise after seeing a 12-year-old boy dealing drugs in 2009 in Hackney, East London — where he lives, and the show is set — has written of how the struggles in his own life – such as raising two children after losing his wife to cancer – bled into the tone of the scripts as he wrote them.
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