Roddy Doyle
Autor(a) de Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
About the Author
Roddy Doyle is the author of five previous novels, including a Booker Prize nominee, The Van, and a Booker Prize winning international bestseller Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has also written several screenplays, most recently When Brendan Met Trudy. His first children's book, The Giggler Treatment, mostrar mais will be published in September by Scholastic. He lives in Dublin. (Publisher Provided) Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin on May 8, 1958, and grew up in Kilbarrack, Ireland. Doyle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993. His personal notes and work books reside at the National Library of Ireland. Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments (1987), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991) comprise The Barrytown Trilogy, a trilogy centred around the Rabbitte family. All three novels were made into successful films. In 1993, Doyle published Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Man Booker Prize. Doyle is the author of ten novels for adults, seven books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. His work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Roddy Doyle
Power, Corruption and Pies: A Decade of the Best Football Writing from "When Saturday Comes" (1958) 17 cópias
The Child 2 cópias
Family [1994 TV series] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplar(es)
Der unglaubliche Rover 1 exemplar(es)
Finbar's Hotel : A Novel 1 exemplar(es)
The Commitments Soundtrack 1 exemplar(es)
The Pram 1 exemplar(es)
The Painting 1 exemplar(es)
The Bandstand 1 exemplar(es)
New Boy 1 exemplar(es)
Black Hoodie 1 exemplar(es)
Home to Harlem 1 exemplar(es)
Mortification [essay] 1 exemplar(es)
Local 1 exemplar(es)
I Understand 1 exemplar(es)
The Hens 1 exemplar(es)
The Slave 1 exemplar(es)
Roddy Doyle audio book 1 exemplar(es)
The Deportees 1 exemplar(es)
Blood 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Contribuinte — 409 cópias
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Contribuinte — 291 cópias
New Dubliners: Original Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners (2005) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Hebbes noire : elf smaakmakers voor de zomer — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Doyle, Roddy
- Nome de batismo
- Doyle, Roderick
- Data de nascimento
- 1958-05-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ierland
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ierland
- Educação
- St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School (Sutton)
University College Dublin (BA) - Ocupação
- English teacher
geography teacher
novelist
dramatist
screenwriter - Relacionamentos
- Doyle, Ita Bolger (mother)
- Premiações
- British Book Award (Author of the Year, 1994)
- Agente
- John Sutton
- Pequena biografia
- Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
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