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Celebrating Jenne Casarotto: ‘High Fidelity’ Writer Nick Hornby Pens Moving Tribute To UK Industry Giant, As Filmmaker Scholarship Launches In Late Agent’s Name
’About A Boy’ Writer Nick Hornby writes a tribute to the late Jenne Casarotto, as an NFTS Scholarship is named in her honor.
EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-nominated novelist, screenwriter and essayist Nick Hornby below writes a special tribute for Deadline commemorating Jenne Casarotto, his agent for nearly 30 years, who died on February 29 aged 77. According to a statement on the initiative, the scholarship will fund a number of writers, directors, producers and heads of department studying at the school, where so many of Jenne’s own clients started their journey thanks to the world-class teaching and creative collaboration that the NFTS brilliantly fosters. The author published several novels including High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, A Long Way Down, About a Boy, Funny Girl and Juliet, Naked, all of which were adapted for the screen.
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