Description
About the Author
Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as a journalist on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of three other novels and also a work of narrative non-fiction, he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2007. He lives in Norfolk.
Awards
Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1999 and Betty Trask Awards 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1998 and Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1998. Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1999 and Betty Trask Award 1999.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571195640
Author Giles Foden
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 285g
Dimensions(mm) 195mm * 125mm * 21mm