William Boyd (writer)
| William Boyd | |
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Boyd in 2009
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| Born | William Andrew Murray Boyd 7 March 1952 Accra, Gold Coast |
| Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
University of Nice, University of Glasgow, Jesus College, Oxford |
| Notable works | A Good Man in Africa |
| Notable awards | various |
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William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottishnovelist and screenwriter.
Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander was a doctor specialising in tropical medicine moved with his mother, who was a teacher, to Ghana in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University of Legonwho and in the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd’s father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd spent his early life educated in Ghana and Nigeria then, at the age of nine, he went to Gordonstoun school, Scotland; and then the University of Nice, France, then the University of Glasgow where he gained an M.A.(hons) in English & Philosophy, and finally Jesus College, Oxford. His father died of a rare disease when Boyd was 26. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a lecturer in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and it was while he was there that his first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), was published. He was also the New Statesman's television critic between 1981 and 1983. Boyd is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been presented with honorary Doctorates in Literature from the universities of St. Andrews, Stirling, Glasgow and Dundee and is an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.
Boyd is married. He met his wife Susan, a former editor and now a screenwriter, while they were both at Glasgow University. He has a house in Chelsea, London and a farmhouse and vineyard (with its own appellation Château Pecachard) in Bergerac in the Dordogne in SW France. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. In August 2014 Boyd was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.
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