Colin Bateman

Colin Bateman is a best-selling novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Bangor in Northern Ireland. A former journalist, his first novel Divorcing Jack won The Betty Trask Prize and was later made into a movie. He has published thirty novels and writes regularly for television. He was recently made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Ulster for his services to literature. While in Paris, Colin will be working on a BBC adaptation of Where Are You Really From?, an autobiography by Tim Brannigan about growing up as a black child in Republican West Belfast and the remarkable secret his mother kept from the world. http://www.colinbateman.com/

Event with artist:
“Et vous trouvez ça drôle ?” 12 - 16/05 2009