Roddy Doyle ( May 8, 1958 , Dublin ) - Irish writer , playwright and screenwriter . One of the most successful young Irish writers. Lives in Monte Carlo .
| Roddy Doyle | |
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| English Roddy doyle | |
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| Date of Birth | May 8, 1958 (61 years) |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship |  Ireland |
| Occupation | teacher , writer , playwright , screenwriter |
| Language of Works | |
| Awards | [d] [d] Booker Prize [d] |
Born 1958 in Dublin. As a child, visited St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School in Sutton . Then he studied at the Irish National University in Dublin, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. For 14 years he taught geography in the suburb of Dublin Kilbarrick . In 1993, he retired from teaching, focusing on literature.
He gained popularity in 1987 after the release of the novel “The Commitments Group” (“The Commitments”), which three years later was filmed . In 1993, the novel “ Paddy Clark ha-ha-ha ” (“Paddy Clarke Na Na Na”) won the Booker Prize , and was translated into nineteen languages. Doyle's novels are full of dialogue , jargon , and vernacular . Doyle's characters are the common people of a “typical country” of the “third world,” as one of them calls Ireland .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120406799 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20170323055333/http://jeugdliteratuur.org/auteurs/roddy-doyle
- B BNF ID : Open Data Platform - 2011.