Swanage Literary Festival – David Wickham: ‘The Stolen Children’ of Argentina

David Wickham has worked all over the world as a writer, television journalist, and producer and director on news and documentaries, factual entertainment and drama programmes. Throughout the Falklands War he was in charge of the BBC’s Current Affairs output from Argentina. Whilst in Argentina he discovered the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and later brought them to the attention of the world with three documentaries. He wrote his first novel, Stolen Children, about that story, and the book may now become the basis of a major film. In drama, he has directed numerous shorts and the highly acclaimed full length drama In Traction.

He has won numerous awards, including from the Royal Television Society, Banff Television Festival, Monte Carlo International Film Festival, New York Festival for Film and Television Festival.He has now completed a second novel, Compulsion, and has also completed a book of poetry which is in the hands of a publisher.