Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author. His first book,Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize (1979). He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (1981), the Irish PEN Award (2004), and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award forShade(2005) andMistaken(2011), which also received the 2011 Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year. His films includeAngel(1982), the Academy Award-winning The Crying Game(1992), Michael Collins(1996) andThe Butcher Boy(1997).