Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’
The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not three
You’ve written books, films, TV shows and plays. Which of your projects do fans most want to talk to you about?
The one that people react to most, particularly women, is The Woman Who Walked Into Doors [about a woman experiencing domestic violence]. It came out in 1996, but even now – I was at a book signing event in Auckland a couple of days ago and two women told me quietly that that book meant so much to them. I think it’s possibly the best book I’ve written.
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Roddy Doyle is speaking at Sydney writers’ festival on Saturday 23 May at 6pm. His latest book is The Women Behind the Door (Penguin)
المصدر: The Guardian — Culture