Chris Dolan


Chris Dolan is an award-winning Scottish novelist, poet, and playwright.

Career

Dolan has published four novels, two collections of short stories and two non-fiction books. He has had three full-length stage plays produced internationally, with five shorter pieces and four collaborations with Spanish dramatists. He has written over 50 hours of television, and more of radio drama. He has worked in collaboration with visual artists on several pieces of public art, has published poems, broadcasts regularly and writes for Scottish and London newspapers.

Novels

Poor Angels was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, and included both the winning story for 1995 Scotland on Sunday / Macallan Prize, and runner-up the following year.

Non-fiction titles

An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald

Plays

His first play was The Veil, Sabina, The Reader, and The Angel's Share.

Writing for screen and radio

Some of his work has appeared on the radio, including four original plays and many adaptations, including Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson and several of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels. His four-part modern take on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was broadcast in October 2012.
He has written for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio 3, and BBC Radio 4. He has written such screenplays as Poor Angels and Ring of Truth as well as TV drama documentaries, An Anarchist's Story: The Life of Ethel MacDonald, Barbado'ed both broadcast by BBC and Red Oil for Channel 4. He also has written extensively for Taggart, Take the High Road, Machair , and River City for which he has been writing since its inception.

Awards

Novels
Short stories
Books
Plays
Radio drama
Television drama
Film
Television, DOC
Radio Writer/presenter Inc’s
Poetry