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Alex Garland
Alex Garland
Born Alexander Medawar Garland1970London, England

Occupation Novelist, Screenwriter

Years active 1996-present

Alexander Medawar "Alex" Garland[1] (born 1970) is a British novelist and screenwriter.

Early Life
Garland was born in London, England, the son of psychoanalyst Caroline (née Medawar) and political cartoonist
Nicholas Garland. His maternal grandparents were zoologist Peter Medawar and author Jean Medawar.[2] Garland
attended the independent University College School, in Hampstead, London, and the University of Manchester,
where he studied art history.

Career
His first novel, The Beach, was published in 1996 and drew on his experiences as a backpacker. The novel quickly
became a cult classic and was made into a film by Danny Boyle, with Leonardo DiCaprio. The Tesseract, Garland's
second novel, was published in 1998. This was also made into a film, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2003, he
wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy. His third novel, The Coma, was
published in 2004 and was illustrated with woodcuts by his father.
In 2005, a script for a film adaptation of Halo was written by Garland (he was paid $1,000,000 to write it) — which
D. B. Weiss and Josh Olson rewrote during 2006 for a 2008 release. The film has been pushed back to 2012. In
2007, he wrote the screenplay for the film Sunshine – his second screenplay to be directed by Danny Boyle and the
second to star Cillian Murphy. Garland also served as an executive producer on 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to 28
Days Later. He is the co-writer on the recently released video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for the
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. He wrote the screenplay for the film Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo
Ishiguro. He is currently writing the script for Dredd, an adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic book series from 2000
AD.

Novels
• The Beach (1996)
• The Tesseract (1998)
• The Coma (2004)

Filmography
• 28 Days Later (screenplay) (2002)
• Sunshine (screenplay) (2007)
• Never Let Me Go (screenplay) (2010)
• Dredd (screenplay) (2011) (filming)
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Awards and nominations

• 2004: Nominated for Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Writing
for 28 Days Later
• 2004: Nominated for Chlotrudis Awards 2004: Best Original Screenplay for 28 Days Later

References
[1] Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
[2] Peacock, Scot (2001). Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Gale / Cengage Learning. pp. 318. ISBN0787646091.

External links
• Alex Garland (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307497/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Backpacker Blues: Spike Magazine interview with Alex Garland (http://www.spikemagazine.com/
0599alexgarland.php)
• "Beach Boy" interview (http://www.salon.com/feb97/alex970211.html)
• "Alex Garland is writing Judge Dredd" (http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=25773)
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