Roddy Doyle: In conversation with Glenn Patterson
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Fiction
The Women Behind the Door (Vintage, 2024) is Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, who originated in the groundbreaking novel The Woman Who Walked into Doors and its follow-up Paula Spencer.
Roddy will be in conversation with Glenn Patterson on the life of the ever-memorable character, and no doubt much more besides!
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and the Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.
Glenn Patterson was born, and lives, in Belfast. A writer of fiction, non-fiction, of scripts for stage and screen, and a founding patron of Fighting Words Northern Ireland, he is Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast.
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