William Boyd (1) (1952–)
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William Boyd is a writer who was born in Ghana on March 7, 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun school; and then the University of Nice, France, the University of Glasgow, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was toon meer while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Novelists" in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. His novels include: A Good Man in Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981; An Ice-Cream War, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, and Any Human Heart, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002. Restless, the tale of a young woman who discovers that her mother had been recruited as a spy during World War II, was published in 2006 and won the Novel Award in the 2006 Costa Book Awards. Boyd published Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel in early 2012. In 2015 his title, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Clay, Amory made the new Zealand Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Boyd, William
- Officiële naam
- Boyd, William Andrew Murray
- Geboortedatum
- 1952-03-07
Accra, Ghana - Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Accra, Ghana
- Woonplaatsen
- Achimota, Ghana
London, England, UK
Bergerac, France
Legon, Ghana
Ibadan, Nigeria - Opleiding
- Gordonstoun School
University of Nice (Dipl.)
University of Glasgow (MA)
Jesus College, University of Oxford (D.Phil|1980) - Beroepen
- lecturer (English Literature)
novelist
screenwriter
short story writer - Organisaties
- University of Oxford (St Hilda's College)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (2005)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1982)
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Costa Book Award (2006)
Grand prix des lectrices de Elle (2003)
Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne (2003) (toon alle 14)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1995)
The Sunday Express Book of the Year (1993)
McVitie's Prize (1991)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1990)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1983)
Somerset Maugham Award (1982)
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1982)
Whitbread First Novel Award (1981) - Agent
- The Agency (London) Ltd.
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romance between married women and doctor in an island in Name that Book (september 2016)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE NOVEMBER - SPARK & BOYD in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (december 2015)
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- Ook door
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- Leden
- 17,873
- Populariteit
- #1,230
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 633
- ISBNs
- 692
- Talen
- 18
- Favoriet
- 77