Timberlake Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque country and lives in London. One of the UK’s leading playwrights, her work has received numerous productions worldwide and is studied in schools and colleges. She is the recipient of many awards including an Olivier Award and a New York Drama Critics Award for Our Country’s Good and Writers’ Guild Awards for Three Birds Alighting on a Field and for Jefferson’s Garden.

Most recently, her translation from the Basque of Little Brother by Amets Arzallus and Ibrahima Balde won a Pen Translation Award and was adapted by her for the stage in London and Spain. Other recent stage work includes an adaptation of Henri-Pierre Roché’s autobiographical novel Jules et Jim.

Previous plays also include: Winter Hill, My Father Odysseus, We Sell Right, The Ant and the Cicada, The Love of the Nightingale, Our Ajax, The Line, Galileo’s Daughter, Credible Witness, The Break of the Day, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Abel’s Sister, The Ash Girl and After Darwin. Translations and versions include: Britannicus, Elektra, Hippolytus, Hecuba, The Thebans, Wild Orchids, False Admissions, Mephisto and Filumena.

Timberlake has undertaken many multi-episode adaptations for radio including Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.