Nationality: Irish. Born: Sligo in 1950. Education: University College, Dublin. Career: Co-founder, Irish Writers Co-operative, 1974. Lives in Bray, County Wicklow. Awards: Arts Council bursary, 1976; Guardian Fiction prize, 1979; Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, 1986; Sorrento Film Festival De Sica award, 1986; New York Film Critics Circle award, Best Screenplay, 1992; Alexander Korda award, Best British Film, Best Direction, 1993; Writers Guild American Screen award, Best Screenplay Written Directly for Screen, 1993; Academy Award, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for Screen 1993; Golden Lion award, Venice Film Festival, 1996; Crystal Isis award, Brussels International Film Festival, 1998; Silver Raven award, Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, 1999.

PUBLICATIONS

Novels

The Past. London, Cape, and New York, Braziller, 1980.

The Dream of a Beast. London, Chatto and Windus, 1983; New York, Random House, 1989.

Sunrise with Sea Monster. London, Chatto and Windus, 1994; NewYork, Random House, 1995.

Nightlines. New York, Random House, 1995.

Short Stories

Night in Tunisia and Other Stories. Dublin, Co-op, 1976; London, Writers and Readers, 1979.

Collected Fiction. London, Vintage, 1997.

Uncollected Short Stories

"A Bus, a Bridge, a Beach" and "The Old-Fashioned Lift," in Paddy No More. Nantucket, Massachusetts, Longship Press, 1978.

"The Artist" and "The Photographer," in New Writing and Writers 16. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1979.

Plays

Screenplays:

Angel (Danny Boy), 1982; London, Faber, 1989; The Company of Wolves, with Angela Carter, 1984; Mona Lisa, with David Leland, 1986; London, Faber, 1986; High Spirits, 1988; London, Faber, 1989; We're No Angels, 1989; The Miracle, 1991; The Crying Game, 1992; Interview with the Vampire, 1994; Michael Collins, Geffen Pictures, 1996; published as Michael Collins: Screenplay and Film Diary, New York, Plume, 1996; (With Patrick McCabe), The Butcher Boy, Warner Brothers, 1997; (With Bruce Robinson), In Dreams, DreamWorks, 1999; The End of the Affair, 1999.

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