Graeme Armstrong
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Graeme Armstrong

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Graeme Armstrong is from Airdrie, Scotland. His teenage years were spent within ‘young team’ gang culture. He studied English Literature as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where he returned to take a Masters’ in Creative Writing. He is currently undertaking a PhD between the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow. His bestselling debut novel, ‘THE YOUNG TEAM’, is inspired by his experiences and was published by Picador in 2020. It won the Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and was Scots Book of the Year 2021. It is currently being adapted for screen by Synchronicity Films (Mayflies, The Tattooist of Auschwitz) and has been commissioned as a BBC drama series with Armstrong as screen writer and executive producer. He was named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2023, a once-in-a-decade literary honour. Graeme presented ‘SCOTLAND THE RAVE’, a BBC documentary exploring Scotland’s rave and PCDJ culture, which was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland Award 2022. He wrote and presented ‘STREET GANGS’, a BBC factual series exploring modern Scottish gang culture and Drill music. Graeme works extensively in the community around violence prevention. He is an ambassador for The Hope Collective, Damilola Taylor’s legacy charity, an associate for the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice, an honorary lecturer at New College Lanarkshire and currently sits on the Strategic Advisory Board for the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit. His new novel, ‘RAVEHEART’, publishes with 4th Estate in 2026 and has been optioned for screen by Warp Films (This is England/ Dead Man’s Shoes/ Adolescence). It is available for pre-order now…
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