Giles Foden

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Giles Foden (* 1967 in Warwickshire ) is an English writer.

Life

When Giles Foden was five years old, his family moved to Africa, where they lived for the next 20 years in different countries, such as Malawi and Uganda. Several of his novels draw themes and motifs from this African period. He studied at Fitzwilliam and St. John's College in Cambridge .

Foden worked as a journalist for Media Week Magazine and the Times Literary Supplement and was literary editor for The Guardian from 1995 to 2006 . He teaches creative writing at the Universities of London and East Anglia (Norwich) and writes regularly for The Guardian and several magazines.

His first novel, The Last King of Scotland , was a bestseller and won several awards. The book became known worldwide in a significantly changed form through the Oscar- winning film adaptation with Forest Whitaker in the role of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin .

Awards

  • 1998 Whitbread Award "First Novel" for The Last King of Scotland
  • 1999 Betty Trask Award for The Last King of Scotland
  • 1999 Somerset Maugham Award for The Last King of Scotland
  • 1999 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for The Last King of Scotland

Works

  • 1998 The Last King of Scotland (novel)
  • 1999 Ladysmith (novel)
    • The last city of Africa, German by Ulrich Blumenbach; Berlin: Structure 2006. ISBN 3-351-03076-2
  • 2002 Zanzibar (novel)
  • 2004 Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika (novel)
    • The true story of the African Queen, German by Karin Dufner; Frankfurt am Main: Fischer 2006. ISBN 3-596-16837-6
  • 2009 Turbulence (novel)

source

  1. ^ The Last King of Scotland

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personal data
SURNAME Foden, Giles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Warwickshire