268-] English Literature
Boyd
in 2009
Born 7 March 1952 (age 73)
Accra,
Gold Coast
Occupation Novelist short story writer screenwriter film
director
Language English
Nationality British
Education
University
of Nice
University
of Glasgow (M.A. Hons)
Jesus
College, Oxford (did not graduate)[1]
Notable
works
A
Good Man in Africa
Any
Human Heart
Notable
awards Grand prix des lectrices de Elle
Website
www.williamboyd.co.uk
WILLIAM
BOYD has received world-wide acclaim for his novels which have been translated
into over thirty languages.
They
are: A Good Man in Africa (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset
Maugham Prize) An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize
and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Stars and Bars (1984), The New
Confessions (1987), Brazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and
the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the
1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award
for Fiction, 1995), Armadillo (1998) and Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the
Prix Jean Monnet). His novels and stories have been published around the world
and have been translated into over thirty languages. He is also the author of a collection of
screenplays and a memoir of his schooldays, School Ties (1985); three
collections of short stories: On the Yankee Station (1981), The Destiny of
Nathalie ‘X’ (1995) and Fascination (2004). He also wrote the speculative
memoir Nat Tate: an American Artist — the publication of which, in the spring
of 1998, caused something of a stir on both sides of the Atlantic. A collection
of his non-fiction writings, 1978-2004, entitled Bamboo, was published in
October 2005. His ninth novel, Restless, was published in September 2006 (Costa
Book Award, Novel of the Year 2006) followed by, Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009),
Waiting for Sunrise (2012), Solo (a James Bond novel – 2013) and Sweet Caress
(2015). His forth collection of short stories entitled The Dreams of Bethany
Mellmoth appeared in 2017. A new novel, his fifteenth, Love is Blind was
published in September 2018.
Born
in Accra, Ghana, in 1952, Boyd grew up there and in Nigeria.
He
was educated at Gordonstoun School and attended the universities of Nice
(Diploma of French Studies) and Glasgow (M.A.Hons in English and Philosophy)
and Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied for a D.Phil in English Literature.
He was also a lecturer in English Literature at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford,
from 1980-83. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary
Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres. He has been presented with honorary Doctorates in Literature from the
universities of St. Andrews, Stirling, Glasgow and Dundee. In 2005 he was
awarded the CBE.
His
many screenwriting credits include Stars and Bars (1987, dir. Pat O’Connor), Mr
Johnson (1990, dir. Bruce Beresford), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1990,
dir. Jon Amiel), Chaplin (1992, dir. Richard Attenborough) A Good Man in Africa
(1993, dir. Bruce Beresford), The Trench (1999, which Boyd also directed) and
Man to Man (2005, dir. Régis Wargnier). He adapted Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop for
television (1988) and also Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy (2001). His own
three-part adaptation of his novel Armadillo was screened on BBC 1 in 2001 as
was his adaptation of his novel Restless (2012). His film about Shakespeare and
his sonnets — A Waste of Shame — was made in 2005 for BBC 4. His 5-hour
adaptation of his novel Any Human Heart (Channel 4 2010 won the BAFTA for “Best
Series”. He has written two original TV films about boarding-school life in
England — Good and Bad at Games (1983) and Dutch Girls (1985).
Boyd
also writes for the theatre. His first play was SIX PARTIES that premiered at
the Cottesloe Theatre as part of the National Theatre’s New Connections series
in 2009. This was followed by LONGING, in 2013, on the main stage at Hampstead
Theatre, an adaptation of two short stories by Anton Chekhov. LONGING is
currently playing in repertoire in St Petersburg, Russia, and in Tallinn,
Estonia. THE ARGUMENT, a dark comedy, is his first play with a wholly
contemporary setting. It was premiered at Hampstead Downstairs(2016) and has
recently had a new production at the Theatre Royal Bath.
He
is married and divides his time between London and South West France.
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