Edward Canfor-Dumas (born 1957) is a novelist and an award-winning TV scriptwriter – and a specialist in conflict management. After winning a scholarship to

Latymer Upper School Latymer Upper School is a public school in Hammersmith, London, England, on King Street. It derives from a charity school, and is part of the same 1624 Latymer Foundation, from a bequest by the English legal official Edward Latymer. There ...

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, he read English Literature at

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

. After a period as a comedy writer and performer he started penning scripts for popular television series such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. His first major feature-length programme was ''Tough Love'', a powerful drama about police corruption, starring

Ray Winstone Raymond Andrew Winstone (; born 19 February 1957) is an English television, stage, and film actor with a career spanning five decades. Having worked with many prominent directors, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Winstone is known ...

. He then wrote the drama for the highly acclaimed

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drama-documentary '' Pompeii: The Last Day'', which was nominated for a

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, and followed this in 2005 with ''

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''. He branched out into novels in the same year, with the successful modern stor
''The Buddha, Geoff and Me''
which he followed in 2014 wit
''Bodhisattva Blues''
Both books have Buddhist themes, as doe
''The Buddha in Daily Life''
(1988), which he ghostwrote for Richard Causton. In 2006 Edward took a lead role in establishing the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, which he ran until 2016. Between 2013 and 2017 he co-led a multinational civil-military project �
to Prevent''
– which developed guidance on an expanded role for the military in the prevention of violent conflict, and was a member of the Strategy Forum of the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff 2014–17. Another book followed in 2018
''The Talking Revolution''
written with Peter Osborn. The message of the book can be summed up in six words: 'Better Conversations, Better Relationships, Better Lives'. He lives with his wife, Coralyn, in

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near

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, and has a son and a daughter, Alexander and Emily.

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* 1957 births Living people English television writers 21st-century English novelists People educated at Latymer Upper School Alumni of New College, Oxford English male novelists 21st-century English male writers British male television writers 21st-century British screenwriters {{england-writer-stub