Neil Jordan

In 1976 Neil Jordan published a collection of his short stories Night in Tunisia through the co-operative. This collection went on to win the Guardian Fiction prize in 1978. Jordan
has gone on to publish three more novels since then. In 1982 Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, Angel, which won the London Evening Standards Most Promising Newcomer Award. He went on to release four more films during the 1980s, to a variety of critical acclaim, winning awards for The Company of Wolves (1984) and Mona Lisa (1986). In 1992 Jordan wrote and directed The Crying Game, a film which was widely celebrated and won him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, as well as numerous other awards. Following the success of The Crying Game, Jordan went on to release several film adaptations of novels, including Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Butcher Boy (1997), and The End of the Affair (1999). Jordan also wrote and directed the films Michael Collins (1996), The Good Thief (2002), and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). To date Jordan has won over 30 awards in his various capacities as writer, director and producer. In 2003 he was given the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award, and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by UCD in 2004.