Anthony Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1993) Winner
Neil Jordan
ニール・ジョーダン
Nīru Jōdan
Aliases:
Neil Patrick Jordan
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1950-02-25 （Sligo, Ireland）
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Catholic
- Residence History
- Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland
Career
- Occupations
- Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Novelist
- Active Years
- 1979-
- Affiliations
- RTÉ
- Influenced By
- Angela Carter
- Influenced
- Jim Sheridan
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Paul's College, Raheny | — | — | — | — | Ireland |
| University College Dublin | — | Irish history and English literature | B.A. | — | Ireland |
St. Paul's College, Raheny
Country:
Ireland
University College Dublin
Irish history and English literature
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1972
Country:
Ireland
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Guardian Fiction Prize | Night in Tunisia | — | The Guardian | Winner |
| 1981 | Rooney Prize for Irish Literature | — | — | — | Winner |
| 2004 | Irish PEN Award | — | — | Irish PEN | Winner |
| 2005 | Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award | Shade | — | — | Winner |
| 2011 | Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award | Mistaken | — | — | Winner |
| 2011 | Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year | Mistaken | — | — | Winner |
| 1993 | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | The Crying Game | — | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Winner |
Guardian Fiction Prize
1979
Work:
Night in Tunisia
Organization:
The Guardian
Result:
Winner
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
1981
Result:
Winner
Irish PEN Award
2004
Organization:
Irish PEN
Result:
Winner
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
2005
Work:
Shade
Result:
Winner
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award
2011
Work:
Mistaken
Result:
Winner
Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
2011
Work:
Mistaken
Result:
Winner
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
1993
Work:
The Crying Game
Organization:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Irish Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2011) Winner
Works
Major Works
Night in Tunisia
1976 Short storiesShort story collection that won the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Irish life
Mistaken
2011 NovelNovel that won Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.
Identity
Shade
2004 NovelNovel awarded Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Bibliography
- Night in Tunisia
- The Past
- The Dream of a Beast
- Mona Lisa
- Angel
- A Neil Jordan Reader
- Sunrise with Sea Monster
- Michael Collins: Screenplay and Film Diary
- Shade
- Mistaken
- The Drowned Detective
- Carnivalesque
- The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small
- The Well of Saint Nobody
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- IdiosyncraticBlending reality and fantasy
- Recurring Motifs
- Unconventional sexual relationshipsThe TroublesStories of children or young people
Legacy
Prominent Irish filmmaker and writer. Academy Award winner among many accolades. Literary awards include Guardian Fiction Prize. Donated archives to National Library of Ireland in 2018.
Archives
- National Library of Ireland
Quotes
-
I was brought up a Catholic and was quite religious at one stage in my life, when I was young. But it left me with no scars whatever; it just sort of vanished.
Source: Salon interview (1999)
Trivia
- Has five children.
- Signed petition in support of Roman Polanski.
- Lives in Dalkey, Dublin.