Nigel Hinton

Nigel Hinton
Born 1941
London, United Kingdom
Genre Teenage and Children's fiction
Notable works Buddy, Beaver Towers, Collision Course
Spouse Rolande Lager
(1980-present)

Nigel Hinton (born 1941 in London) is an English novelist.

Personal life and family

Nigel Hinton was born in London in 1941. He attended Dulwich College.[1] He has been married to Rolande Lager since 1980.

Career

Hinton worked in advertising for two years, then taught English for nine years at the Hugh Christie School in Tonbridge, Kent. He then worked as a professional actor and did some part-time teaching before deciding to concentrate on writing. He has written at least twenty three novels from Collision Course (1976) to The Norris Girls (2017) including the Buddy trilogy for teenagers and the Beaver Towers stories for younger children. His novel The Finders won the Federation of Children's Book Groups Award, and Collision Course won the Dutch Silver Pen Award. Out of the Darkness won the Lancashire Book Award and the Stockport Book Award.[2] His novel Time Bomb, set in 1949 in the area he grew up, won the 2006 Rotherham Book Award. In 2014 his short novel Partners in Crime won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award.

He kuk adapted some of his novels for the screen, notably Buddy which was made into a BBC television series, and Buddy's Song which was made into a feature film. Both films starred Roger Daltrey as Buddy's father Terry. He has also written a number of original scripts for TV and the theatre.

Hinton's work is used widely in schools, and Buddy has been one of the best selling novels for teenagers in the last thirty five years. Teachers particularly appreciate his novels because they appeal to a wide range of pupil ability and are even enjoyed by teenage boys who don't usually like reading. However The Norris Girls is a departure from the usual boy appeal of his previous novels in which it is written for girls and all the protagonists are female although the writing style otherwise remains the same.

In music Hinton co-wrote the song Take Me Home for Roger Daltrey's 1987 album Can't Wait to See the Movie. He also contributed to the Buddy's Song soundtrack by co-writing nine songs all performed by Chesney Hawkes who played Buddy in the film.

List of works

References

  1. ↑ "Nigel Hinton - Curtis Brown". Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Nigel Hinton Question & Answers". nigelhinton.net. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
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