| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Creative Writing |
G dot Foden at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3425 |
Arts 2.36 |
Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967 but grew up mostly in Africa. After taking an English Literature degree, he was Harper-Wood Student in Creative Writing at St John’s College, Cambridge. In 1993 he became assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Between 1996 and 2006 he worked on the books pages of the Guardian, during which period he published his debut novel The Last King of Scotland, which won the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award. He is author of three other novels — Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence — and a work of narrative non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. In 2006 Foden was awarded an AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2007, the Oscar-winning film of The Last King of Scotland was released.
Giles Foden is a Professor of Creative Writing. He was the Harper-Wood Student in Creative Writing at St John’s College, Cambridge, and in 1993 became assistant editor of the TLS. Between 1996 and 2006 he worked on the books pages of the Guardian, during which period he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and was released as an Oscar-winning film in 2007. He is the author of three other novels – Ladysmith, Zanzibar, and most recently Turbulence – and a work of narrative non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. He was one of the judges of the MAN Booker Prize for Fiction in 2007.
Foden, Giles (2011) Foreword. In: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali. Canongate.
Foden, Giles (2011) Introduction. In: Brazilian Adventure: A Quest into the Heart of the Amazon. IB Tauris.
Foden, Giles (2011) Introduction. In: No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France. Folio Society.
Foden, Giles (2010) Introduction. In: Global System Dynamics and Policies. European Commission.
Foden, Giles and William Boyd, [No Value] (2010) Introduction. In: The Ice Cream War. Penguin.
Foden, Giles and Giles Foden et al, [No Value] (2009) One Last Throw of the Dice. In: Ox-Tales: Water. Green Profile, pp. 167-82. ISBN 9781846682063
Foden, Giles and John Buchan, [No Value] (2009) Introduction. In: The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories. Penguin. ISBN 9780141442426
Foden, Giles (2010) Future Technology and Society. In: EC Workshop on Innovation Narratives, 2010-01-01.
Foden, Giles (2013) Meet Me at Blue Leopard. Faber. (In Press)
Foden, Giles (2011) Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA. Full Circle.
Foden, Giles (2009) Turbulence. Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571205226
Foden, Giles (2009) Towards a Science of Global Systems. European Commission.
Foden, Giles and Manubhai Madhvani, [No Value] (2009) Tide of Fortune: A Family Tale. Random House: India. ISBN 9781897403808
Foden, Giles (2005) Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika. Penguin Books Ltd.. ISBN 9780141009841
Foden, Giles (2003) Zanzibar. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571205178
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