Giles Foden

Giles Foden

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The Last King of Scotland by author Giles Foden("Faber and Faber" 1998)]

Giles Foden (born in Warwickshire in 1967) is an English author best known for his award-winning novel "The Last King of Scotland" (1998).

Biography

Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was brought up. He was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he read English. He worked as a journalist for "Media Week" magazine, then became an assistant editor on the "Times Literary Supplement". He was deputy literary editor of "The Guardian" between 1995 and 2006 and is currently Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and still contributes regularly to "The Guardian" and other journals..

His first novel, the acclaimed "The Last King of Scotland" (1998), is set during Idi Amin's rule of Uganda in the 1970s. It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. The 2006 feature film, "The Last King of Scotland" starring Forest Whitaker, is based on Foden's novel with considerable differences, and Foden himself makes a brief cameo as a journalist at one of Amin's press conferences. His second novel, "Ladysmith" (1999), is set during the Anglo-Boer War in 1899 and tells the story of a young woman, Bella Kiernan, who becomes caught up in the Siege of Ladysmith. The book was inspired by letters written by Foden's great-grandfather, Arthur Foden, a British soldier in the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the conflict.

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, a collection of short fiction set in Africa by various contemporary writers. "Zanzibar" (2002), is set in East Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998. His latest book, "", was published in 2004. ("Source:" [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/ Contemporary Writers in the UK] )

elected bibliography

*1998: "The Last King of Scotland"
*1999: "Ladysmith"
*2002: "Zanzibar"
*2004: ""

Awards and Prizes

*1998: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) "The Last King of Scotland"
*1998: Whitbread First Novel Award "The Last King of Scotland"
*1999: Betty Trask Award "The Last King of Scotland"
*1999: Somerset Maugham Award "The Last King of Scotland"
*1999: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize "The Last King of Scotland"

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/foden/ An Interview with Giles Foden and an excerpt from "The Last King of Scotland" on RandomHouse boldtype]
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/ Contemporary Writers in the UK]


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