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Derek Landy
b. 1974·Irish
Derek Landy is an Irish author born in 1974, best known for creating the Skulduggery Pleasant series — a darkly comic fantasy saga following a wise-cracking skeleton detective and his young companion Valkyrie Cain. The series, which spans fourteen main novels and numerous spin-offs, has earned him a devoted international readership and established him as one of Ireland's most celebrated writers of young adult fiction.