Derek Landy

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

Derek 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 (approximately 1.3 million AUD) for the publishing rights. He plans to write 9 books in the series

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

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    You must understand. Death must come to all. Sooner to some, later to others.
    —Tom Graeff. Derek (David Love)

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    Dewitt Bodeen (1908–1988)