![]() He met Denise Cottrell, a fellow Keble undergraduate, and they married in Keble College chapel. As a result, there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long-running British soap Coronation Street, while Cottrell-Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme. He wrote criticism for the magazine Living Marxism. He read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he went on to earn a doctorate. He was greatly influenced by reading Moomins growing up. He attended St Bartholomew's Primary School in Rainhill and West Park Grammar School. ![]() He moved to Rainhill, while still at primary school. Personal life Ĭottrell-Boyce was born in 1959 in Bootle near Liverpool to a Catholic family. Ĭottrell-Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, which was commissioned by a charity. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming. ![]() Cottrell-Boyce at the 2015 Berlin International Literature Festivalįrank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. ![]()
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