Barney Norris

1987–

Barney Norris is an English playwright and novelist, born in Chichester in 1987 and raised in Wiltshire. He read English at Keble College, Oxford, and studied creative writing at Royal Holloway. With the director Alice Hamilton he set up the touring company Up in Arms, which staged his first full-length play, Visitors. His first novel, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, received a Betty Trask Award in 2017; Turning for Home, The Vanishing Hours and Undercurrent followed. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he stood for the Green Party in Salisbury at the 2024 general election.

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