---
name: "Edward Docx"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edward-docx"
fi1m_id: "edward-docx"
imdb_id: "nm2454245"
tmdb_id: 5771883
wikidata_id: "Q5342606"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:10:14.786994+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Edward Docx

## Identity

Edward Docx

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edward-docx
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edward-docx
- **IMDb ID:** nm2454245
- **TMDB ID:** 5771883
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5342606
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Docx, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5342606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2454245/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5771883

Writer. Born 1 January 1972 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- **Also known as:**  Ed Docx
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Docx, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5342606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2454245/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5771883

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Slow Horses*](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Edward Docx is an English writer of novels, screenplays and journalism. Born in 1972 in northern England, he was educated at St Bede's College in Manchester and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature.

His novels include *The Calligrapher* (2003), *Pravda* (2007), *The Devil's Garden* (2011) and *Let Go My Hand* (2017). He has contributed journalism to the *Guardian* and *New Statesman*, where he is an associate editor. As a screenwriter he has worked on the Apple TV+ series *Slow Horses* (2022–), among other television and film projects.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, edwarddocx.com, casarotto.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Slow Horses* (2022), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Slow Horses* (2022), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/slow-horses.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Booker Prize 2007: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Self Help*

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

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/edward-docx