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Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
About Roddy Doyle
- Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
- He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories.
- Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991.
- Doyle's 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.
- Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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