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: Kerry Myler (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

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 …

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Citation: Elices , Juan F.. "William Boyd". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 April 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=516, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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