Writers’ Guild Awards winners
Writers behind some of the most critically acclaimed works over the last two years were honoured at the 29th Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards ceremony, including Russell T Davies, Kevin Dyer, Emerald Fennell, Andrea Gibb, Chinonyerem Odimba, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Jack Thorne (pictured above).
The awards, across 16 categories in film, television, radio, theatre, comedy, books and videogames, took place at a ceremony at the Royal College of Physicians in London on the evening of Monday 14 February 2022.
Hosted by WGGB President Sandi Toksvig OBE (pictured left), it honoured two years of the best of British writing following the cancellation of last year’s awards due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ceremony was held on Valentine’s Day as a gesture of appreciation to writers and the creative industries who have endured a challenging two years but have kept audiences entertained throughout the pandemic.
Stage and screen writer Jack Thorne was presented with the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Writing Award by Jane Tranter whom he collaborated with on BBC’s fantasy drama trilogy His Dark Materials.
Thorne’s career has seen him write extensively for TV, film, stage and radio, winning multiple awards. His TV writing credits include Help, National Treasure, The Virtues, Kiri, The Last Panthers, Glue, The Accident, The Eddy, The Fades, Shameless, Cast Offs, This Is England ’86, This Is England ’88, This Is England ’90, and he was a core writer in the first three series of Skins. He has also written the upcoming BBC 2 film drama Then Barbara Met Alan.
His film work includes the features Enola Holmes, The Scouting Book for Boys, The Aeronauts, Radioactive, The Secret Garden, A Long Way Down, Wonder, War Book
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