![]() ![]() It was something different for Doyle, yet the novel eschews the same humour, exuberant language and astute sensibility that have come to characterize his work. Three years after his Man Booker win, Doyle published The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, told from the point of view of a 39-year-old alcoholic woman who is suffering from domestic violence. ![]() The novel was so popular that before it won, Australian writer Germaine Greer said on British television that it was "too good for the Booker." Like most of Doyle's work - including his enormously popular novels The Commitments and The Van - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is dialogue-driven and expletive-ridden, offering (as Doyle himself describes) a "speeded-up and larger than life portrait of Dublin." ![]() Listen to Writers & Company's special summer series with Man Booker Prize winners Irish novelist Roddy Doyle won the Man Booker Prize in 1993 for the coming-of-age story Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which for more than 15 years was the biggest-selling Man Booker Prize winner ever - surpassed only by Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of England's Man Booker Prize, Writers & Company is airing a special summer series of Booker Prize winners from our archives. You can see all the episodes here. ![]()
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