William Boyd

William Boyd

William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast, (present-day Ghana), to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana). In the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd's father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd spent his early life in Ghana and Nigeria and, at the age of nine, went to a preparatory school and then to Gordonstoun school in Scotland, and, after that, to the University of Nice in France, followed by the University of Glasgow, where he gained an M.A. (Hons) in English & Philosophy, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. His father died of a rare disease when Boyd was 26. Between 1980 and 1983 Boyd was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was also television critic for the New Statesman between 1981 and 1983. Boyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 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 and is an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. Boyd is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club. Boyd met his wife Susan, a former editor and now a screenwriter, while they were both at Glasgow University. He has a house in Chelsea, London and a farmhouse and vineyard (with its own appellation Château Pecachard) in Bergerac in the Dordogne in south-west France. In August 2014 Boyd was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. ... Source: Article "William Boyd (writer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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  • Рожден ден : 1952-03-07
  • Място на раждане : Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]
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    Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'

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  • 2009
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    Hockney on Photography and Other Matters

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  • 2005
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    Подобието човек

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  • 1992
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  • 1990
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    Леля Джулия и писачът

    Леля Джулия и писачът

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  • 1999
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    The Trench

    The Trench

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  • 1994
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    Един добър човек в Африка

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  • 1985
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  • 2001
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    Sword of Honour

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  • 1991
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    Мистър Джонсън

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  • 1970
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    The Captain and the Enemy

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  • 2005
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    A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

    A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

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  • 2017
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    The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth

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  • 1999
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  • 1983
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    Good and Bad at Games

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  • 1994
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  • 1994
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    Един добър човек в Африка

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  • 1988
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    Stars & Bars

    Stars & Bars

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  • 1988
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    Stars & Bars

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