Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author based in Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia , won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He is also a former winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish PEN Award, and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Jordan's films include Angel , the Academy Award-winning The Crying Game , Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy .

Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author based in Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia , won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He is also a former winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish PEN Award, and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Jordan's films include Angel , the Academy Award-winning The Crying Game , Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy . See less