Robert Harris
English novelist
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| 2025 | Robert Harris won the USC Scripter Awards in the Film category for his work 'Conclave' |
| 2025 | Robert Harris' work 'Conclave' is pending for the USC Scripter Awards. |
| January 2025 | Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours List for services to Literature. |
| 2024 | Robert Harris is set to publish 'Precipice'. |
| November 1 2024 | The film adaptation of Robert Harris's novel 'Conclave', starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci and directed by Edward Berger, was released in the US by Focus Features. |
| August 29 2024 | Robert Harris published his latest novel, Precipice, which follows a young British intelligence officer investigating the disappearance of top-secret documents during Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's affair. |
| 2023 | Robert Harris was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for his work 'Act of Oblivion'. |
| 2022 | 'The Fear Index' was adapted into a 4-part limited series by Sky Atlantic, featuring actor Josh Hartnett. |
| 2022 | The novel 'Munich' was adapted for Netflix as 'Munich – The Edge of War', featuring actors Jeremy Irons and George MacKay. |
| 2022 | Wrote 'Act of Oblivion', further demonstrating his prolific writing career. |
| September 1 2022 | Robert Harris published 'Act of Oblivion,' a novel set in 1660 that follows Richard Nayler of the Privy Council on a mission to track down the regicides Edward Whalley and William Goffe, featuring only real historical figures as named characters. |
| July 22 2022 | Received Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) from the University of Leicester. |
| July 22 2022 | Robert Harris was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) by the University of Leicester. |
| 2020 | Robert Harris was nominated for the Lumières Award for Best Screenplay for 'An Officer and a Spy'. |
| 2020 | Robert Harris won the César Award for Best Adaptation for his work on 'An Officer and a Spy'. |
| September 17 2020 | Robert Harris published 'V2', a thriller set in November 1944, which explores the intertwined lives of a German V-2 rocket scientist, Rudi Graf, and a British WAAF, Kay Caton-Walsh. |
| 2019 | The film adaptation of Robert Harris's novel 'An Officer and a Spy,' directed by his friend Roman Polanski, was released. |
| 2019 | Robert Harris was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for 'An Officer and a Spy'. |
| 2019 | The film based on Harris's screenplay about the Dreyfus affair was released by Gaumont. |
| September 5 2019 | Robert Harris published his novel 'The Second Sleep,' which is set in the year 1468 in a fictional version of England. |
| 2018 | After many years of production difficulties, the film based on Harris's screenplay about the Dreyfus affair was filmed in 2018, starring Jean Dujardin. |
| June 2018 | In June 2018, Robert Harris reiterated his support for Roman Polanski in a discussion about the changing cultural perceptions of the director's past crimes. |
| September 21 2017 | Robert Harris published the thriller 'Munich', which is set during the negotiations for the 1938 Munich Agreement between Hitler and UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. |
| September 22 2016 | Robert Harris published the novel 'Conclave', which is set over 72 hours in the Vatican and focuses on the election of a fictional Pope. |
| October 8 2015 | Robert Harris published 'Dictator', the long-promised conclusion to the Harris Cicero trilogy, by Hutchinson. |
| 2014 | Robert Harris won the Walter Scott Prize for his work 'An Officer and a Spy'. |
| 2013 | Robert Harris published the novel 'An Officer and a Spy,' which tells the story of French officer Georges Picquart and his efforts to expose the wrongful imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus. |
| 2012 | Harris wrote a screenplay based on the Dreyfus affair, which Polanski was to direct. |
| February 10 2012 | Robert Harris appeared on the American PBS show Charlie Rose to discuss his novel The Fear Index and the adaptation of his novel The Ghost into the movie The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. |
| 2011 | Robert Harris won the Lumières Award for Best Screenplay for 'The Ghost Writer'. |
| 2011 | Robert Harris won the César Award for Best Adaptation for his work on 'The Ghost Writer'. |
| 2011 | Robert Harris won the César Awards for Best Adaptation for 'The Ghost Writer' and the Lumières Awards for Best Screenplay. |
| September 2011 | Robert Harris published 'The Fear Index' through Hutchinson, which centers on the 2010 Flash Crash and features a hedge fund operator's experience with uncontrollable computer algorithms. |
| 2010 | Robert Harris was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for his work 'Lustrum'. |
| 2010 | Robert Harris won the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for 'The Ghost Writer'. |
| 2010 | Wrote the screenplay for 'The Ghost Writer' in collaboration with Roman Polanski. |
| 2010 | Robert Harris won the European Film Awards for Best Screenwriter for 'The Ghost Writer' and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for 'Lustrum'. |
| December 2 2010 | Harris appeared on the radio programme Desert Island Discs, discussing his childhood and his friendships with Tony Blair and Roman Polanski. |
| February 2010 | The film 'The Ghost Writer', co-written by Robert Harris, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. |
| February 2010 | 'Lustrum' was released in the US under the alternative title of 'Conspirata'. |
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