Roddy Doyle
Autor/a de Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Sobre l'autor
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, mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Roddy Doyle
Power, Corruption and Pies: A Decade of the Best Football Writing from "When Saturday Comes" (1958) 14 exemplars
The Child 2 exemplars
Family [1994 TV series] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplars
Der unglaubliche Rover 1 exemplars
Finbar's Hotel : A Novel 1 exemplars
The Hens 1 exemplars
Home to Harlem 1 exemplars
The Slave 1 exemplars
I Understand 1 exemplars
The Pram 1 exemplars
Black Hoodie 1 exemplars
The Painting 1 exemplars
The Bandstand 1 exemplars
New Boy 1 exemplars
Mortification [essay] 1 exemplars
Local 1 exemplars
Roddy Doyle audio book 1 exemplars
The Deportees 1 exemplars
Teaching 1 exemplars
The Commitments Soundtrack 1 exemplars
Blood 1 exemplars
Obres associades
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Col·laborador — 409 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 23 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Still Going Strong Like Castro (We Meant Ramón) (2007) — Col·laborador — 290 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Col·laborador — 283 exemplars
New Dubliners: Original Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners (2005) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Hebbes noire : elf smaakmakers voor de zomer — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Doyle, Roddy
- Nom oficial
- Doyle, Roderick
- Data de naixement
- 1958-05-08
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ierland
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Dublin, Ierland
- Educació
- St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School (Sutton)
University College Dublin (BA) - Professions
- English teacher
geography teacher
novelist
dramatist
screenwriter - Relacions
- Doyle, Ita Bolger (mother)
- Premis i honors
- British Book Award (Author of the Year, 1994)
- Agent
- John Sutton
- Biografia breu
- Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Irish writers (6)
Tour of Ireland (1)
To Read (1)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 80
- També de
- 37
- Membres
- 19,567
- Popularitat
- #1,116
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 426
- ISBN
- 812
- Llengües
- 23
- Preferit
- 74