The King Ed-Write aka Eddie de Oliveira was born in the suburbs of London, to a Brazilian father and Argentinian mother. I studied English Literature at University College London, graduating in 2000. I have worked as a teacher, DJ, youth worker, film extra and box office assistant. I support Fulham Football Club.
I write books, short stories, plays and screenplays, and I am also a journalist. I live in London and used to live in Stockholm, Sweden. I got into drama when I was a small boy. Together with a few friends from my school drama class, I started a not-for-profit theatre company called In Human Form. We started in 1996 and ,although the personnel has changed quite a bit, the company is still going, only now we make short films. In Human Form, or IHF, has produced a total of seven stage plays.
Between 1998 and 2001, I wrote and directed four plays at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival. The first, State, was co-written with Iain Morland. Baa Baa Boys in 1999 received the Best Young Act accolade from the Daily Telegraph, and Lucky in 2001 was a finalist for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Three of the four plays transferred to London following successful runs at Edinburgh.
I adapted my script for Lucky into a novel published by Scholastic Inc in the United States in February 2004. A second book, Johnny Hazzard, was published in hardback in 2005 and paperback the following year. A promotional trip to the US in 2006 garnered press interest in various newspapers, radio and TV stations, including The Washington Post and The Austin American Statesman. Read more Lucky and Johnny Hazzard in the Books section.
The Blanket, a short story, was published in the This Is Push anthology in 2007.
As far as journalism goes, I’ve contributed articles to, among others, the Daily Telegraph and FourFourTwo Magazine, and in 2007 worked as a reporter and newsreader for Radio Sweden, the English language world service of Swedish Radio. I wrote text commentary and wrote football match reports for British Eurosport.
Between 2001 and 2003 I was Development Assistant at Random Harvest Pictures, based at Pinewood Studios in London. I was a script reader and assistant to the Development Executive, Lisa Neeley. I still work for Lisa doing some freelance script reading with her company The Script Connection, reviewing and writing reports on screenplays submitted to the UK Film Council.
In the summer of 07 I also read submissions to the International Screenwriters Festival and provided judges with criticism on each of the submitted screenplays.
I’ve written and directed two short films, Driving Through Snow (2004) and Out Loud (2006), both IHF productions. More about them in the Films section.
Right now, winter 2010, I am in London writing and sub-editing kids’ magazines at international publishing house Egmont. I’ve written two screenplays, The Dog Thieves, a comedy based around the famous (infamous?) Crufts Dog Show in England, and a non-fiction collaboration set in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the 70s/80s. Its working title is The Dirty War.
I’m also working on a childrens’ book and my third young adult novel. Last but not least, I am conducting a culinary blogging experiment called Eddie On Floyd, in which I try my hand at various recipes by the late, wonderful English chef Keith Floyd. You can read about and see how I get on here. Eddie On Floyd updates are also posted at Twitter.
Any questions or comments are welcomed here on the site or at eddie@inhumanform.com Or you can always be my friend at myspace.
Representation for novels, short stories and other prose is provided by Rebecca Sherman at Writers House in New York.
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