Graeme Armstrong (author)

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Graeme Armstrong (born 1991) is a Scottish author best known for his debut novel, The Young Team. The novel won the Betty Trask Award, Somerset Maugham Award, and was named 'Scots Book of the Year' in 2021. The Young Team is currently being adapted for television by Synchronicity Films and has been commissioned as a BBC drama production as of March, 2025. Armstrong has been announced as lead screenwriter. In 2023, Granta included Armstrong on their 'Best of Young British Novelists' list, an honour presented every decade to the twenty most significant British novelists under forty years old. Armstrong's second novel, Raveheart, was published by 4th Estate (imprint) at HarperCollins in June 2026. It is being adapted for screen by Warp Films, (This Is England, Dead Man's Shoes and Adolescence) and is a dystopian rave comedy.

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