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William Boyd (1) (1952–)

Auteur van Rusteloos

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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

Werken van William Boyd

Rusteloos (2006) 2,763 exemplaren
Any Human Heart (2002) 2,404 exemplaren
Brazzavillestrand (1990) 1,291 exemplaren
Donderwolken (2009) 1,290 exemplaren
Gewoon een beste kerel (1981) 1,113 exemplaren
Wachten op de dageraad (2012) 1,038 exemplaren
Gewoon een oorlogje (1982) 944 exemplaren
Armadillo (1998) 927 exemplaren
De blauwe namiddag (1993) 903 exemplaren
The New Confessions (1988) 803 exemplaren
Sweet Caress (2015) 597 exemplaren
Sterren en strepen (1984) 595 exemplaren
Solo (2013) 549 exemplaren
Love Is Blind (2018) 326 exemplaren
On the Yankee Station (1981) 290 exemplaren
Fascination (2004) 273 exemplaren
Trio (2021) 270 exemplaren
The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' (1995) 220 exemplaren
The Romantic (2022) 192 exemplaren
Granta 100 (2007) 179 exemplaren
Bamboo : Essays and Criticism (2005) 150 exemplaren
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth (2017) 103 exemplaren
Killing Lizards and Other Stories (1982) 98 exemplaren
Protobiography (1998) 81 exemplaren
The Dream Lover: Short Stories (1995) 69 exemplaren
The Vanishing Game (2014) 62 exemplaren
La chasse au lezard / nouvelles (1990) 29 exemplaren
Le destin de Nathalie X (1990) 19 exemplaren
Visions fugitives (1997) 17 exemplaren
Transfigured Night (1995) 12 exemplaren
The Trench [1999 film] (1999) — Director — 10 exemplaren
Longing (2013) 10 exemplaren
Any Human Heart [2010 TV mini series] (2011) — Screenwriter — 9 exemplaren
The Argument (2016) 4 exemplaren
Scoop [1987 TV movie] (1987) — writer — 4 exemplaren
Lanark 4 exemplaren
Bullets Don't Cry (1994) 3 exemplaren
My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans (1991) 2 exemplaren
A Good Man in Africa [1994 film] (1994) — Screenwriter — 2 exemplaren
Not, Yet, Jayette 1 exemplaar
Scoop [play] 1 exemplaar
A Waste of Shame [2005 TV movie] — writer — 1 exemplaar
Graham Sutherland (1993) 1 exemplaar
Lunch [audio play] 1 exemplaar
the loss adjuster 1 exemplaar
Hantise 1 exemplaar
Cork (1994) 1 exemplaar
9 French 1 exemplaar
1 School 1 exemplaar
3 First London 1 exemplaar
4 Second World War 1 exemplaar
5 Post War 1 exemplaar
6 New York 1 exemplaar
7 African 1 exemplaar
Charlie 1 exemplaar
8 Second London 1 exemplaar
Boyd William 1 exemplaar
2 Oxford 1 exemplaar

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Gefingeerde memoires. De schets van de jonge jaren is schitterend hen humoristisch.
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judikasp | 93 andere besprekingen | Feb 15, 2015 |
Alles voor Her Majesty, is het motto, en daar houdt het meestal bij op. Vóór Skyfall kon je Bond nauwelijks betrappen op enige persoonlijke gevoelens (op lust na, uiteraard), maar dat is veranderd. 007 zint op wraak en handelt zonder medeweten van M in Londen. Ik vond Skyfall al de beste Bondfilm ooit, wegens de persoonlijke toets. Deze Solo kan ik ook wel smaken, al ligt het spanningsgehalte een stuk lager.
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jebronse | 31 andere besprekingen | Jan 4, 2014 |
Roman over een Brits diplomaat in de tropen. Grappig, heet en plakkerig.
 
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judikasp | 20 andere besprekingen | Dec 26, 2011 |
zie www.annavangelderen.nl I agree fully with her.Wonderful book, in which a fictitious person truly comes to life.It tells his long life story and that's to me exactly the point what makes it so wonderful:you asre dealing with a complete life, and not, as so often, a difficult period out of someone's life .By the way: in The New Confessions, in the 90's, Boyd attempted more or less the same, and also splendidly.
 
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