Nina Metivier is a British screenwriter, best known for co-creating the teen thriller '' The A List''.

Early life and education

Metivier was educated at

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. Metivier credited

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's ''

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'' trilogy for inspiring her to write.

Career

Metivier began her career in children's television, working as a

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and development executive at

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. She began a running collaboration with Dan Berlinka in 2014, co-creating and writing the children's mystery series '' Dixi'' for CBBC Online. It won the

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award for Original Interactive Show in 2014. In 2018, she would reteam with Berlinka for ''The A List'', which released on

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on 25 October 2018. The series would move to Netflix for the second season, which she also co-wrote. She continued script editing on ''The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby'' and the eleventh series of ''

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''. She would later write the fourth episode of the twelfth series, " Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror". Metivier also wrote episodes for '' After the Flood'' and '' Fool Me Once''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metivier, Nina Living people 21st-century British women writers British television writers British women television writers British women science fiction and fantasy writers Year of birth missing (living people)