Giles Foden
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Born | Giles William Thomas Foden 11 January 1967 |
Nationality | British |
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Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)[1] is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).
Biography
Giles William Thomas Foden[1] was born in Warwickshire in 1967, the son of Jonathan, an agricultural adviser, and Mary, a farmer. On his grandfather's death, the family sold their farm and in 1972 moved to Malawi in south-eastern Africa.[2] Foden was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,[3] where he read English, and at St John's College, Cambridge.
Foden first worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine. He later became an assistant editor on The Times Literary Supplement and, between 1995 and 2006, was deputy literary editor at The Guardian. Formerly a Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, he continues to contribute to The Guardian and other journals.
Foden's first novel,
Giles Foden edited The Guardian Century (1999), a collection of the best reportage and feature-writing published in the newspaper during the twentieth century, and he contributed a short story to The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa, a collection of short fiction set in Africa by various contemporary writers.
In 2009, he donated the short story "(One Last) Throw of the Dice" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Foden's story was published in the Water collection.[5] His latest book, Turbulence, is a novel about the military interest in meteorology in the Second World War.[6]
Selected bibliography
- 1998: The Last King of Scotland
- 1999: Ladysmith
- 2002: Zanzibar
- 2004: Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika
- 2009: Turbulence
Awards and prizes
- 1998: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) for The Last King of Scotland
- 1998: Whitbread First Novel Awardfor 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
References
- ^ a b George Stade and Karen Karbiener (eds), Encyclopaedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, 2nd edn, Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 176.
- ^ "Giles Foden - Literature". British Council. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ Foden, Giles (2 September 2014). "For me, Meeting the British blew away the very idea of certainty". The Guardian.
- ^ "The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden". Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ Oxfam: Ox-Tales Archived 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mark Lawson (6 June 2009). "Atmospheric pressures". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2020.