Tuesday the 13th
Neil Jordan Books
Night in Tunisia (1976) , The Past (1980) , The Dream of a Beast (1983) , Sunrise with Sea Monster (1994) , Shade (2005)
Neil Jordan Links
Neil Jordan - Official Website
Site http://www.neiljordan.com
Born in 1950 in Sligo, Ireland, Neil Jordan's early career began as a writer. After setting up The Irish Writers' Cooperative in 1974, he went on to win The Guardian Fiction Prize for his book of short stories NIGHT IN TUNISIA (1976). Since then he has gone on to publish three novels, THE PAST (1979), THE DREAM OF A BEAST (1983) and most recently SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER (1994). Jordan's published fiction has been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese. In 1982 Neil Jordan wrote and directed his first feature film, ANGEL, for which he won The London Evening Standard's Most Promising Newcomer Award. THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) was his next film and was honoured with Best Film and Best Director Awards by the London Critics Circle and a Golden Scroll for Outstanding Achievement from The Academy of Science Fiction and Horror Films.
Neil Jordan - Lycos
Site http://entertainment.lycos.com/movies/celebrity.php?id=13737
Although not a painter like his grandfather, mother and two sisters, Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan inherited the same artistic sensibilities but opted for a camera instead of a brush to create the visually rich canvasses of his always complex pictures. He first became established, however, as an acclaimed author of moody, turbulent short stories and novels dealing with passion, sexuality and the changes of the last generation in his native Ireland. On films he has creatively controlled, Jordan has crafted stories that involve unconventional love and the moral issues of violence and death. Elements of whimsy, fantasy, surprise and horror often crop up in his movies, including the political thrillers...
Neil Jordan - ScreenOnline
Site http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/481951/index.html
Neil Jordan was born in County Sligo, Ireland and educated at University College, Dublin where he studied Irish History and English and founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative. He published a volume of short stories, Night in Tunisia, that won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1976, and has since published three novels: The Past (1979), The Dream of a Beast (1983) and Sunrise with Sea Monster (1994). After working as script consultant on John Boorman's Excalibur in 1981, Jordan made his feature debut with Angel (1982), which dramatises the experiences of an Irish saxophonist (Stephen Rea, in the first of many roles for Jordan) who witnesses the murder of his band manager and a young woman and determines to wreak revenge. Though made as a low-budget film for television, the surreal style of the film, its oneiric use of colour and lighting, and its poetic use of dialogue persuaded Channel 4 to distribute it theatrically.
Neil Jordan - Bloosbury
Site http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/neiljordan/microsite.asp?cf=0&id=739
Neil Jordan is the award-winning writer and director of such films as Mona Lisa, The End of the Affair, Interview with the Vampire, and The Crying Game, for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1993. He is also the author of four novels: Shade, The Past, The Dream of a Beast and Sunrise with Sea Monster, and a short story collection, Night in Tunisia.
Neil Jordan - BritMovie
Site http://www.britmovie.co.uk/biog/j/004.html
Irish director who has made a variety of international movies in between return visits to his native country to direct films that often have a fantasy slant and are constantly of a controversial and confrontational nature. A musician in his younger days, Jordan played guitar and saxophone in a band that travelled all over Ireland, although less to the north after members of one band were shot and killed there by Protestant extremists. Turning to writing short stories, then novels, Jordan became involved with the film industry in his early thirties after working as script consultant on John Boorman's Excalibur (1981). Jordan made a documentary about his experiences and decided he would like to write and direct for the medium. His first, Angel (1982), the first of six Jordan films to star the lugubrious Irish actor Stephen Rea, was a contemporary black thriller that reflected Jordan's own musical past, in that its hero (Rea) was a saxophonist who becomes involved in avenging the murders of two friends. A formidable debut, it was like a slice of Raymond Chandler within a particularly desperate and abrasive Irish context.
Neil Jordan - Irish Writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/neiljordan.html
Neil Jordan was born in Sligo in 1950. He has published one book of short stories, A Night in Tunisia (Co-Op Books, 1976), and three novels: The Past (1980); The Dream of a Beast (1983); and Sunrise and Seamonster (1995), all by Jonathan Cape of London. His awards include the Guardian Fiction Prize (1979). He has scripted and directed several major films, including Angel; Company of Wolves (in collaboration with Angela Carter); Mona Lisa; High Spirits; The Miracle; The Crying Game, Michael Collins, for which he was awarded The Golden Lion at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; and The Butcher Boy, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, which McCabe scripted. He directed We're No Angels. He has also written for the stage, and for Irish and British television and radio. He is a member of Aosdána, and lives in Co Dublin.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925