Guy Burt is an English

England

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 author

Author

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, best known for his 1993

1993 in literature

The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times....

 debut novel

Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...

, After the Hole

After the Hole

After the Hole is a psychological horror novel by Guy Burt, which was the basis for the 2001 film The Hole. It won a Betty Trask Award in 1994.-Plot summary:...

, a psychological horror

Psychological horror

Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot...

 story about a group of private school students trapped in an underground bunker, seemingly locked in by a deranged, sociopathic

Psychopathy

Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. Psychopaths are highly prone to antisocial behavior and abusive treatment of others, and are very disproportionately responsible for violent crime...

 classmate. He won the Betty Trask Award

Betty Trask Award

The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. The awards were established in 1984 by the Society of Authors, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels...

 in 1994 for this work, which was adapted into the 2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 film

Film

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, The Hole

The Hole (2001 film)

The Hole is a 2001 psychological thriller film directed by Nick Hamm, based on the novel After the Hole by Guy Burt.The film starred Thora Birch, whose headlining credit and highly-publicized seven-figure salary was attributed to her appearance in American Beauty...

, starring Thora Birch

Thora Birch

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 and Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank is an award-winning British actor. He received a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the multi-award–winning movie Shakespeare in Love...

. He has since published two more novels, Sophie (1994) and The Dandelion Clock (1999).

Burt has also written for television

Television

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, including episodes of Kingdom

Kingdom (TV series)

Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...

, Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer is a British television comedy drama written by Caleb Ranson which stars David Jason as a jewel thief and professional con man.-Background:...

, Afterlife

Afterlife (TV series)

Afterlife is a British television drama series, produced by independent production company Clerkenwell Films for the ITV network...

, Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood

Wire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with...

, Ghostboat and Murder in Mind.

Early life

Burt wrote his first novel when he was just 18. He read English literature

English literature

English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

 at Oxford university and eventually became a teacher

Teacher

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, although he left after five years so he could pursue full time writing.

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