Roddy Doyle is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of 11 novels, 8 children's books, 7 plays and screenplays, and many short stories. Several of Doyle's books have been made into films, beginning with "The Commitments" in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle received the Booker Prize for his 1993 novel "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha."