Nina Metivier is a British screenwriter, best known for co-creating the teen thriller '' The A List''.

Early life

Metivier was educated at Stockport Grammar School. Metivier credited the ''

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'' novels for inspiring her to write.

Career

Metivier began her career in children's television, working as a

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and development executive at

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. She began a running collaboration with Dan Berlinka in 2014, co-creating and writing the children's mystery series '' Dixi'' for CBBC Online. It won the BAFTA award for Original Interactive Show in 2014. In 2018, she would reteam with Berlinka for ''The A List'', which released on

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on 25 October 2018. The series would move to Netflix for the second season, which she also co-wrote. She continued script editing on ''The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby'' and the eleventh series of ''

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''. She would later write the fourth episode of the twelfth series, ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metivier, Nina Living people 21st-century British women writers British television writers British women television writers Women science fiction and fantasy writers Year of birth missing (living people)