Derek Landy

Derek Landy
Born	Derek Landy October 23, 1974 County Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Irish
Genres	Fantasy
Notable work(s)	Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy (born October 1974 in Lusk, County Dublin) is an Irish author and screenwriter, famous for the Skulduggery Pleasant series of children's books.

Derek Landy in Edinburgh, August 2011

He has written two screenplays that have been made into films -- the IFTA award winning Dead Bodies and the IFTA nominated Boy Eats Girl starring Samantha Mumba. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script.

Landy later moved onto writing the Skulduggery Pleasant novels, starting with Skulduggery Pleasant, published by Harper Collins which according to The Sunday Times in 2006 paid 1 million euro for the publishing rights. He plans to write 9 books in the series^[1]

He attended Drogheda Grammar School during his childhood years and also has a black belt in kenpo karate.

Novels

• Skulduggery Pleasant (With "Scepter of the Ancients" as an alternative name to avoid confusion with the series) (2007)
• Playing with Fire (2008)
• The Faceless Ones (April, 2009)
• Dark Days (April, 2010)
• Mortal Coil (September 2010)
• Death Bringer (September 2011)
• End of the world (2012)

His first novel, Skulduggery Pleasant was originally released in 2007 and won the illustrious Red House Children's Book Award, with children voting for the winning novel.^[2] It was published in the US in 2009 as Scepter of the Ancients. Playing with Fire and Mortal Coil both won the senior Irish Children's Book Award, in 2009 and 2010.

References

1. ^ Authortrek website: Derek Landy biography
2. ^ Red House Children's Book Award, Past winners, retrieved 7 February 2010

External links

• Derek Landy at the Internet Movie Database
• Skulduggery Pleasant Official Website

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Name	Landy, Derek
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Date of birth	1974
Place of birth	County Dublin, Ireland
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