Roddy Doyle

Born in Dublin, Roddy Doyle is a celebrated novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He began his writing career portraying contemporary Dublin suburbia in the vastly comic Barrytown trilogy. Its component parts, The Commitments (1987), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991), were all successfully adapted for the screen. Doyle's novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the 1993 Booker Prize. It was followed by The Woman who Walked into Doors in 1996, which Doyle continued with Paula Spencer a decade later. In 1999 appeared the first part of The Last Roundup, a historical trilogy, with A Star Called Henry. It was followed by Oh Play that Thing in 2004 and The Dead Republic. Doyle has published two short story collections, The Deportees and Bullfighting, that consider the struggles facing immigrants and middle-aged men respectively in contemporary Ireland. His hugely popular books for children include The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, The Meanwhile Adventures, Wilderness and A Greyhound of a Girl.  Roddy Doyle lives in Dublin. For more information, visit his website: http://www.roddydoyle.ie .