What is Roddy Doyle?
[[File:Doyleroddy33.jpg|thumb|Roddy Doyle]] '''Roddy Doyle''' (born 8 May 1958) is an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[novelist]], [[dramatist]] and [[screenwriter]]. He was born in [[Dalkey]] and grew up in [[Killbarack]]. He writes about [[working class]] [[Dublin]]. Some of his [[book]]s have been made into [[movie]]s, the best-known of which is ''The Commitments'', which is the first of [[The Barrytown Trilogy]]. He, [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]] adapted the book into a movie, ''[[The Commitments (movie)|The Commitments]]''; the three men won the [[BAFTA]] Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Doyle is an [[atheist]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bath-childrens-literature/8782207/Roddy-Doyle-interview.html |title=Interview |access-date=2018-04-01 |archive-date=2019-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021105344/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bath-childrens-literature/8782207/Roddy-Doyle-interview.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> == References == <references/> == Other websites == *{{imdb|0236486}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Doyle, Roddy}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Atheists]] [[Category:BAFTA Award winners]] [[Category:Irish novelists]] [[Category:Irish movie producers]] [[Category:Irish screenwriters]] [[Category:Television writers]] [[Category:Writers from Dublin]]