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Giles Foden (Giles William Thomas Foden) was born on 11 January, 1967 in Warwickshire, United Kingdom, is an English author. Discover Giles Foden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

Popular As Giles William Thomas Foden
Occupation Writer; Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 11 January 1967
Birthday 11 January
Birthplace Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1967

Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967) is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).

Giles William Thomas Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967, the son of Jonathan, an agricultural adviser, and Mary, a farmer.

1972

On his grandfather's death, the family sold their farm and in 1972 moved to Malawi in south-eastern Africa.

Foden was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he read English, and at St John's College, Cambridge.

Foden first worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine.

1995

He later became an assistant editor on The Times Literary Supplement and, between 1995 and 2006, was deputy literary editor at The Guardian.

Formerly a Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and now Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, he continues to contribute to The Guardian and other journals.

1998

Foden's first novel, The Last King of Scotland (1998), is set during Idi Amin's rule of Uganda in the 1970s.

It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

1999

His second novel, Ladysmith (1999), is set during the Anglo-Boer War in 1899 and tells the story of a young woman, Bella Kiernan, who becomes caught up in the Siege of Ladysmith.

The book was inspired by letters written by Foden's great-grandfather, Arthur Foden, a British soldier in the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the conflict.

Giles Foden edited The Guardian Century (1999), a collection of the best reportage and feature-writing published in the newspaper during the twentieth century, and he contributed a short story to The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa, a collection of short fiction set in Africa by various contemporary writers.

2002

Zanzibar (2002), is set in east Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998.

2004

Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika, was published in 2004.

2006

The feature film, The Last King of Scotland (2006), starring Forest Whitaker, is based on Foden's novel with considerable differences, and Foden himself makes a brief cameo as a journalist at one of Amin's press conferences.

2009

In 2009, he donated the short story "(One Last) Throw of the Dice" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Foden's story was published in the Water collection.

His latest book, Turbulence, is a novel about the military interest in meteorology in the Second World War.