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name: "David Peace"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1967"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:27:14.844285+00:00"
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# David Peace

Writer. Born 1 January 1967 in Ossett.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1967, Ossett
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3030961/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118607

## Coming up

- *The Damned United* (2009-03-27), Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-damned-united.md)

## Biography

David Peace is an English writer. He was born in 1967 in Dewsbury and grew up in Ossett, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Batley Grammar School, Wakefield College and Manchester Polytechnic.

Peace is best known for the *Red Riding Quartet* of novels (1999–2002), which were adapted into the 2009 Channel 4 series *Red Riding*, and the novel *The Damned Utd* (2006), adapted into the 2009 film *The Damned United*. He was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, newstatesman.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Red Riding* (2009), Fi1m 80, Book, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974* (2009), Novel
- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980* (2009), Novel
- *Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983* (2009), Novel
- *The Damned United* (2009), Novel — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-damned-united.md)
- *Red Riding* (2009), series, Book, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/red-riding.md)

## Gallery

- ![David Peace](https://film.one/media/person/94499/gallery-25be0255a004.jpg) David Peace — Krimidoedel Dr. Jost Hindersmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/David_Peace01.jpg/1280px-David_Peace01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Peace at a reading in Oelde-Stromberg, Germany, in November 2010](https://film.one/media/person/94499/gallery-cb6c9d7f992d.jpg) David Peace at a reading in Oelde-Stromberg, Germany, in November 2010 — Krimidoedel Dr. Jost Hindersmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/David_Peace_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2004: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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