William Boyd. | Biography | Video | © Eamonn McCabe WILLIAM BOYD has received world-wide acclaim for his novels. They are: A Good Man in Africa (1981, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize) An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Stars and Bars (1984), The New Confessions (1987), Brazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, 1995), Armadillo (1998) and Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet).
His novels and stories have been published around the world and have been translated into over thirty languages. Born in Accra, Ghana, in 1952, Boyd grew up there and in Nigeria. His screenwriting credits include Stars and Bars (1987, dir. Pat O'Connor), Mr Johnson (1990, dir. Author photograph © Eamonn McCabe. L'assassin habite au 21. Librairie Compagnie. Contemporary Writers in the UK - Contemporary Writers.
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