Derek Landy
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 Derek Landy in Edinburgh, August 2011 |
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| Born | Derek Landy October 23, 1974 County Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality |  Irish |
| Genres | Fantasy |
| Notable work(s) | Skulduggery Pleasant |
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Derek Landy (born October 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin) is an Irish author and screenwriter, famous for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.
He has written two screenplays that have been made into films -- the IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl starring Samantha Mumba. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script.
Landy later moved onto writing the Skulduggery Pleasant novels, starting with Skulduggery Pleasant, published by Harper Collins which according to The Sunday Times in 2006 paid 1 million euro for the publishing rights. He plans to write 9 books in the series[1]
He attended Drogheda Grammar School during his childhood years and also has a black belt in kenpo karate.
[edit] Novels
- Skulduggery Pleasant (With "Scepter of the Ancients" as an alternative name to avoid confusion with the series) (2007)
- Playing with Fire (2008)
- The Faceless Ones (April 2009)
- Dark Days (April 2010)
- Mortal Coil (September 2010)
- Death Bringer (September 2011)
- The End Of The World (March 2012) (short-novel)
His first novel, Skulduggery Pleasant was originally released in 2007 and won the illustrious Red House Children's Book Award, with children voting for the winning novel.[2] It was published in the US in 2009 as Scepter of the Ancients. Playing with Fire and Mortal Coil both won the senior Irish Children's Book Award, in 2009 and 2010.
[edit] References
Derek Landy is far too modest to talk about any awards or accolades his books may have won. He will not, for instance, mention the fact that his first book, Skulduggery Pleasant, won the Red House Children’s Book Award, or that his second, Playing With Fire, won an Irish Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, or that his third, The Faceless Ones, is his mother’s personal favourite.
He lives in Ireland with a variety of cats, a German Shepherd, and two geriatric Staffordshire Bull Terriers who keep peeing on his kitchen floor because they think it’s funny.
