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Guy Burt

Guy Burt is a novelist and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter.

Born in 1972, Burt wrote his first novel, After the Hole, when he was 18. He went on to write two further novels, Sophie and The Dandelion Clock, and taught English for five years. When After the Hole was filmed (as The Hole, starring Thora Birch), Burt began writing for screen, and has become one of the top screenwriters working in Britain today. You can see his screenwriting credits here.

He now works on both novels and screenplays, and divides his time between England and Spain. He is married to Philosophy lecturer Chon Tejedor and has two children.


“If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes.""The Hole”
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“Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole”
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