Piers Torday

Piers Torday (born 1974) is a British children's writer. The son of the novelist Paul Torday, he was born in Northumberland and was a theatre and television producer for many years.[1][2]

His book The Dark Wild (2014) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for 2014.[3] After Torday's father died, leaving an unfinished novel manuscript The Death of An Owl, Torday completed the novel.[1]

Torday's adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was performed at Wilton's Music Hall in Shadwell in east London between 1 December 2017 and 6 January 2018,[4] and revived at the same venue between 30 November 2018 and 5 January 2019.[5] It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company from 31 October 2023, running until 7 January 2023.

He has visited schools and libraries across the UK such as Edward Peake Middle School.

  1. ^ a b Piers Torday: finishing his father’s last novel, The Guardian, 7 May 2016.
  2. ^ Piers Torday website, accessed 6 March 2018
  3. ^ Emily Drabble, Piers Torday wins for 'wildly inventive' adventure, The Guardian, 14 November 2014.
  4. ^ "The Box of Delights". Wilton's. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  5. ^ "The Box of Delights by Piers Torday based on the novel by John Masefield". www.wiltons.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.