Giles Foden

Giles Foden
Born
Giles William Thomas Foden

(1967-01-11) 11 January 1967 (age 57)
NationalityBritish
EducationYarlet Hall
Malvern College
Alma materFitzwilliam College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Writer; Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia
Notable workThe Last King of Scotland (1998)
AwardsWhitbread First Novel Award;
Betty Trask Award;
Somerset Maugham Award;
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize

Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)[1] is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).

  1. ^ George Stade and Karen Karbiener (eds), Encyclopaedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, 2nd edn, Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 176.