William Boyd

Juan F. Elices (Universidad de Alcala de Henares)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 7 Mar 1952
Activity 1981-ongoing

Places

Born in Ghana
Active in United Kingdom

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Satirist

Resources

Boyd's Works

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In 1983, Bill Buford, editor of

Granta

, devoted its seventh issue to present a record of some of the most promising young British novelists, among whom were authors that are now solidly consolidated in the British letters: Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Caryl Phillips and William Boyd himself. Although Boyd had only published two novels by that time –

A Good Man in Africa

and

An Ice-Cream War

– and a collection of short stories –

On the Yankee Station

(1983) – he was already a recognised writer, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for

A Good Man in Africa

and the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for

An Ice-Cream War

, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Since then, the author has published…

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Citation: Elices , Juan F.. "William Boyd". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 April 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=516, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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