Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan was born on 25 February 1950 in County Sligo. A history graduate of University College Dublin in 1972, he first published short stories, and his first collection, which appeared in 1976 from a Dublin writers' cooperative, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Brought in by John Boorman on the shooting of an Arthurian film, he directed his first feature film in 1982 and has since pursued a dual career as filmmaker and novelist, with a body of work that is often violent and in which love and betrayal recur.

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• Feature filmThe Crying GameNeil Jordan · 1992Cinema