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His third novel, Cosmic, was published in 2008, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in the same year. His second children's novel, Framed, was shortlisted for both the 2005 Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award.įrank Cottrell Boyce has won several awards for his screenplays, and lives in Liverpool with his family. In 2004, he wrote a book for children based on his own screenplay - Millions - and this book won the 2004 Carnegie Medal. He also worked with other directors, including writing the screenplays for the films Revenger's Tragedy, in 2002, an adaptation of Thomas Middleton's 17th-century play Hilary and Jackie Millions and Grow Your Own in 2007. He then collaborated with director Michael Winterbottom on the film Forget About Me, in 1990, and this was followed by further screenplays written for the same director: Butterfly Kiss in 1995 Welcome to Sarajevo in 1997 The Claim in 2000, originally based on Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge 24 Hour Party People in 2002 Code 46 in 2003 and A Cock and Bull Story in 2005.
He first worked as a television critic for Living Marxism magazine, and wrote episodes for Coronation Street and Brookside. Frank Cottrell Boyce was born in Liverpool and studied English at Oxford University.
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