Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Bateman has been writing novels since his debut, Divorcing Jack, in 1994. Divorcing Jack won a Betty Trask Award in the same year and was adapted into a 1998 film starring David Thewlis. Several of Bateman’s novels featured the semi-autobiographical Belfast journalist, Dan Starkey.
