Adrian Levy
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Adrian Levy

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Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-clark Former writers and foreign correspondents for The Sunday Times, and then The Guardian, they won the One World award for foreign writing, and were made One World Media’s Press Journalists of the Year. They have produced documentaries for HBO, PBS, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2010, their film ‘City of Fear’, on Pakistan’s bloodiest year, was nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. In 2012, the C4 documentary Torture Trail, won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and a finalist in the Rory Pecks. ‘Chinese Murder Mystery’, an investigation into a Communist Party killer, was long-listed for a BAFTA and nominated for the Monte Carlo Television Awards 2013. They produced the Emmy-winning seasons for Vice-on-HBO. This year, they are producing for HBO Max a feature documentary, Patient Zero, directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney. Their first book, The Stone of Heaven, 2001 was a finalist in Borders New Voices competition. Their second, The Amber Room, 2004, was a New York Times Book of the Year. Deception, 2008, was a Washington Post Book of the Year, and finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster’s medal for Military History. The Meadow, published by Penguin in 2012, won the Ramnath Goenka Award. The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Their sixth non-fiction book, 'The Exile', the kitchen sink drama of the Bin Laden’s and a book of the year for The Guardian was published by Bloomsbury, in 2017. In 2021, they published Spy Stories, an oral history of the South ASian espionage wars, and in 2022 comes Forever Prisoner, the first complete account of CIA Enhanced Interrogations, which three US Presidents described as torture, using thousands of pages of declassified cables, and with interviews with most of the key protagonists. http://secrets-and-lies.co.uk Twitter: @AdrianMLevy
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