Biography
Paul Laverty (born 1957) is an Irish and Scottish screenwriter and former lawyer, born in Kolkata. He is best known for his long-running collaboration with director Ken Loach, for whom he has written numerous screenplays since the mid-1990s.
His credits include Carla's Song (1996), My Name Is Joe (1998), Sweet Sixteen (2002), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Looking for Eric (2009), The Angels' Share (2012), Jimmy's Hall (2014), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Sorry We Missed You (2019) and The Old Oak (2023). For Sweet Sixteen he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. I, Daniel Blake won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film.
