He wrote the television screenplays Good and Bad at Games (1983) and Dutch Girls (1985) (collected in book form as School Ties in 1985), and has adapted two novels by Evelyn Waugh for television: Scoop (1987) and Sword of Honour (2001). His most recent novels are Ordinary Thunderstorms (2009) and Waiting for Sunrise (2012).īoyd has also published the short story collections On the Yankee Station (1981), The Destiny of Natalie ‘X’ (1995), Fascination (2004) and The Dream Lover (2008), and a collection of non-fiction, Bamboo (2005).Ī former television critic for the New Statesman (1981-3), William Boyd has also worked extensively as a screenwriter for both film and television. Restless (2006) won the 2006 Costa Novel Award.
In 1998 Boyd also published Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960, an elaborate hoax ‘biography’ of a neglected genius, which embarrassed a number of prominent art critics who claimed to have heard of the wholly fictional painter.īoyd’s eighth novel Any Human Heart (2002), a history of the twentieth century told through the fictional journals of the novelist Logan Mountstuart, won the Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature in 2003 and was nominated for the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Armadillo (1998) is set in London and follows the adventures of insomniac loss-adjuster Lorimer Black. His other novels include An Ice-Cream War (1982), winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, Brazzaville Beach (1990), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the McVitie’s Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year, and The Blue Afternoon (1993), which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction). In 1983 Boyd was named by Granta as one of the 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. Published while he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, his first novel A Good Man in Africa (1981) won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.
He was educated at Gordonstoun School, Glasgow University and Jesus College, Oxford. William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952.
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