Awards, Oprah and a TV Deal: Success Continues for Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe

Awards, Oprah and a TV Deal: Success Continues for Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe

What a week for bestselling author and Better Reading community favourite Trent Dalton. Firstly, Boy Swallows Universe was featured on the top 25 beach reads of the year in Oprah Magazine. Then, the novel made the longlist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious literature prize. Is that enough for one week?

Clearly not. Because today’s big news is that following a heated international auction, Anonymous Content, Chapter One and Hopscotch Features have jointly secured the television rights for Boy Swallows Universe, in a deal negotiated on behalf of HarperCollins Australia.

Australian actor, director and writer, Joel Edgerton (Boy Erased) will produce the project alongside Anonymous Content’s Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Sophie Gardiner for Chapter One and Troy Lum for Hopscotch Films. Dalton will also executive produce.

The Better Reading community embraced and supported Boy Swallows Universe, the captivating coming-of-age story set in Brisbane’s violent working-class suburban fringe, inspired by the real-life events of journalist Trent Dalton’s complicated youth. It has sold over 160,000 copies in Australia alone since its publication in July 2018 and has also been awarded Book of the Year at both the Indie Book Awards and the Australian Book Industry Awards. It will be published across 34 English language and translation territories over the coming year, including in the US and the UK.

Trent Dalton is a staff writer for The Weekend Australian Magazine and a former assistant editor of The Courier Mail. He’s a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a three-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards’ Features Journalist of the Year. Boy Swallows Universe is his first book.

How excited are you about Boy Swallows Universe coming to TV?

 

 

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                      Trent Dalton
                      About the author

                      Trent Dalton

                      Trent Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), a critically acclaimed national bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize, and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. At the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the book won a record four awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been published across thirty-four English language and translation territories. His second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, was published by HarperCollins in October 2020 and has also become a national bestseller. He's also a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year.

                      Photo credit: David Kelly

                      Books by Trent Dalton

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