Roddy Doyle

Ireland

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Roddy Doyle is one of Ireland’s best contemporary novelists, acclaimed for his unsentimental view of the Irish working class. His bestselling Barrytown Trilogy—The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van—was a critical and commercial success, with all three novels being adapted to film. In 1993, he won the Booker Prize for Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha. His other novels include The Woman Who Walked into Doors, A Star Called Henry and the latest, Oh, Play That Thing.