About Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author. His first book, Night In Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1979). Since then he has published seven novels, for which he was awarded the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award (2004). In 1996 the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the title of Officier d’Ordre des Ars et des Lettres. His films have won world-wide recognition, including an Academy Award (The Crying Game), two Golden Lions at Venice (Michael Collins), a Silver Bear in Berlin (The Butcher Boy) and several BAFTAs (Mona Lisa, The End of The Affair). He lives in Dublin.