Adrian Levy
- Producer
- Writer
Emmy-winning producer and writer Adrian Levy was a former foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, and then The Guardian, where he won the One World award for foreign writing, and was made One World Media's Press Journalist of the Year, having been part of a team that won the British Press Awards.
He has co-written ten books: Deception, 2008, on the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network, 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 (Penguin 2012), a police procedural about Western backpackers kidnapped in Kashmir, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, as the best of non fiction. Global best seller, The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. His sixth non-fiction book, 'The Exile', (Bloomsbury, 2017), tracked Osama bin laden and family on the run from Afghanistan and into Pakistan. In 2021, Spy Stories was published, on the war between Pakistan spies of the ISI and India's spooks at RAW. In 2022, The Forever Prisoner (Grove, 2022), accompanied the HBOMax feature doc of the same name.
Adrian is adapting The Meadow into a two season scripted drama and co-wrote a six episode hijack drama, IC-814, for Netflix in 2024. He has produced documentaries for HBOMax, PBS, History Channel, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2022, he won an Emmy for feature documentary, The Forever Prisoner, directed by Academy award winner Alex Gibney. Other films include 'City of Fear', on Pakistan's bloodiest year, nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Kashmir Trail, that won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Peck awards.
He has co-written ten books: Deception, 2008, on the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network, 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 (Penguin 2012), a police procedural about Western backpackers kidnapped in Kashmir, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, as the best of non fiction. Global best seller, The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. His sixth non-fiction book, 'The Exile', (Bloomsbury, 2017), tracked Osama bin laden and family on the run from Afghanistan and into Pakistan. In 2021, Spy Stories was published, on the war between Pakistan spies of the ISI and India's spooks at RAW. In 2022, The Forever Prisoner (Grove, 2022), accompanied the HBOMax feature doc of the same name.
Adrian is adapting The Meadow into a two season scripted drama and co-wrote a six episode hijack drama, IC-814, for Netflix in 2024. He has produced documentaries for HBOMax, PBS, History Channel, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2022, he won an Emmy for feature documentary, The Forever Prisoner, directed by Academy award winner Alex Gibney. Other films include 'City of Fear', on Pakistan's bloodiest year, nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Kashmir Trail, that won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Peck awards.
