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William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish [2] [3] novelist, short story writer and screenwriter . Biography. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana ), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.
William Boyd ( Accra, 7 marzo 1952) è uno scrittore e sceneggiatore britannico di origini scozzesi, noto in Italia soprattutto per il romanzo Brazzaville Beach ( 1990 ). Come sceneggiatore, ha collaborato alla realizzazione di film tratti dai romanzi degli scrittori contemporanei Mario Vargas Llosa e Joyce Cary .
William Boyd is the author of seventeen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the ...
Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer. It is written as a lifelong series of journals kept by the fictional character Mountstuart, a writer whose life (1906–1991) spanned the defining episodes of the 20th century, crossed several continents and included a ...
Critical perspective. William Boyd is perhaps best described as a wry historian of 20th-century life, and an ironic commentator on the ways that life has been represented, not only in literature, but in the companion genres of visual art, film and photography.
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 ...
12 dic 2023 · William Boyd has written 17 novels and multiple collections of stories, spanning fictional biographies, foreign adventures and even a James Bond thriller. So where’s the best place to start with the twice Booker Prize-nominated author?
