Nicholas Hogg was born in Leicester. After graduating with a psychology degree he travelled widely, living in the USA, New Zealand, and Japan, where he worked as an English teacher and an actor. While press officer for a Japanese NGO ship he sailed around the world three times, reporting on global development issues. He has also worked as a counsellor, in road construction, and as a cycle courier. Currently he divides his time between writing, and running a fashion brand.
His acclaimed novel Tokyo is now in production as a Ridley Scott film. Directed by Jordan Scott, and starring Eric Bana, Blade Runner’s Sylvia Hoeks, and Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink, Berlin Nobody is due for theatrical release in 2024.
Show Me the Sky, his debut novel, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and his short stories have won numerous prizes and been broadcast by the BBC.
Winner of the 2021 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Liverpool Poetry Prize, Nicholas Hogg’s debut collection, Missing Person, is published by Broken Sleep Books.
His screenplay, Kerry James, was awarded Best Feature at the New Renaissance Film Festival, and was a finalist in the Birmingham Film Festival.
He is also a founder of the revived Authors Cricket Club, a team of cricket playing writers. The Authors XI was published by Bloomsbury and short-listed for the MCC Book of the Year.
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