The Writers Are Coming: Five Rising European Scribes To Watch Out For In 2024
23.12.2023 - 15:43
/ deadline.com
This Deadline feature, now in its fourth year, seeks to spotlight the work of some of the buzziest new European writers in the business.
This year’s crop contains a former doctor, journalist and moon rock lover. Together, they are working on an eye-catching array of projects, from James Norton’s adaptation of JP Delaney’s bestselling novel Playing Nice, to Netflix and the BBC’s retelling of the Lockerbie bombing.
Our writers share a devotion to storytelling and feel passionately about ideas with a strong sense of place — be that a Welsh cave with a hidden dragon or an elite Swedish boarding school.
Scroll on for our rundown of the five Rising Writers to watch out for in 2024.
It was a good news day when Grace Ofori-Attah sat down for a chat with Deadline: her ITV series Malpractice had just been renewed for a second season. “It’s obviously the dream,” she beams.
The first season starred Niamh Algar as a doctor under investigation over suspected negligence. Season 2 will feature a whole new case, with another medic under the microscope. Produced by World Productions, it is, in essence, Line of Duty in a hospital.
Helpful then that Ofori-Attah is a Cambridge-educated doctor who practiced for nearly 15 years. She’s done shifts in emergency units and returned to the frontline during the pandemic, meaning she has first-hand experience of the NHS at its most vital.
Storytelling has always been among her first loves, however. She penned poems and short stories for herself from a young age, and even attempted to write a novel at the same time as studying for her medical degree. After graduating, Ofori-Attah turned her creative powers to a script, which she finished quickly and found satisfying.
Ofori-Attah submitted the