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Damien Lewis is running a week-long Thriller Workshop at the West Cork Literary Festival, set on the stunning west cork coastline at Bantry Bay, during the first week of July. For more information: www.westcorkliteraryfestival.ieDamien has just won the One World Popular Features Award. |
Welcome to the official website of bestselling author Damien Lewis
Author, War Reporter, Adventurer . . .
In 2005 Damien Lewis was selected to write a book in the British Government’s Quick Reads initiative, profiling ‘20 of the nation’s favourite authors’.
Damien Lewis grew up in rural Dorset, where he acquired a love of the outdoors and the countryside. He went to Hardye’s School, and undertook his first major expedition from University, spending a year driving a 4x4 from the UK to Central Africa and back. Always intending to be a journalist, Lewis produced a documentary film on that Africa expedition that won the coveted BBC-WWF Wildscreen Award. This launched his career as a newspaper and TV reporter, one that increasingly took him into the world’s major war and disaster zones.
Always a maverick free spirit and a risk-taker, he worked for fifteen years as a freelancer – for the BBC, Channel 4 and foremost US and European broadcasters. He also wrote for the quality British press – including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Observer and The Guardian. During that time he lived with guerrilla fighters in the Burmese jungles for a year, was trained by Her Majesty’s Government to take samples of Chemical and Biological Weapons reportedly used in the Burmese and Sudan war zones, spent six months in the depths of the Amazon hunting lost tribes, and penetrated the heart of the infamous Golden Triangle heroin producing zone in Loas-Thailand.
In 2001 he wrote his first book, ‘Slave’, co-authored with Mende Nazer – which became an acclaimed international bestseller and is being made into a feature film. Since then he has written several other non-fiction works, concentrating on war, special forces and compelling human stories.
His first ‘faction’ – a fictional work based upon a factual story – is Desert Claw, being published as a 2006 Quick Read. He is presently working on further non-fiction and faction stories, and continues to travel and make films around the world. His books have been published in some 25 different languages and 80 countries around the world and his film, written and authorial work has won many international awards. He is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Trust, and a member of the Frontline Club, the Society of Authors and the Director’s Guild of Great Britain.
When writing he divides his time between the West Country, France and Ireland.
You Can find out more about Damien on the Author page
A full list of the books that Damien has written can be found in Books section. This has links to each book from where you can find extra material that wasn't included at the time of publication.
Damien has also made a number of films and documentaries which have won awards. A complete upto date list of work appears in the Film Work page
For those wishing to keep uptodate with Damien's work we have a newsletter. Visit the Mailing List page and subscribe.
Details for contacting the author can be found on the Contacts page.