The Last King of Scotland by author Giles Foden (Faber and Faber 1998)

Giles Foden (born in Warwickshire, United Kingdom in 1967) is a British author best known for his award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland (1998). Image File history File links Lastkingofscotland. ... Image File history File links Lastkingofscotland. ... The Last King of Scotland is Giles Foden’s award-winning first novel. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... The Last King of Scotland is Giles Foden’s award-winning first novel. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Biography

Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972 where he was brought up. He returned to England at the age of 13 and was educated at Malvern College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where he read English. He worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine and became an assistant editor on the Times Literary Supplement, then deputy literary editor of The Guardian. He contributes regularly to The Guardian and is books review editor for Condé Nast Traveller magazine. Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Malvern College is a coeducational English public school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded in 1865. ... Full name Fitzwilliam College Motto Ex antiquis et novissimis optima The best of old and new Named after Fitzwilliam Museum, named after Richard Fitzwilliam Previous names Fitzwilliam Hall [Non collegiate] (1869), Fitzwilliam House [Non collegiate] (1924) Established 1966 Sister College(s) St Edmund Hall Master Prof. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

His first novel, the acclaimed The Last King of Scotland (1998), is set during Idi Amin's rule of Uganda in the 1970s and won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. 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. Both novels are being adapted as feature films. The Last King of Scotland is Giles Foden’s award-winning first novel. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Idi Amin on a ten-shilling note Idi Amin (c. ... Book of the Year Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters Childrens Book Winner: David Almond, Skellig Shortlist: Robert Swindells, Abomination J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets James Riordan, Sweet Clarinet First Novel Winner: Giles Foden, The Last King of Scotland Shortlist: Gavin Kramer, Shopping Magnus Mills, The... The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. ... Ladysmith is Giles Foden’s second novel. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Combatants British Empire Orange Free State, South African Republic Commanders Frederick Roberts later Lord Kitchener Christiaan Rudolf de Wet and Paul Kruger Casualties Military dead:22,000 Civilian dead:N/A Total dead:22,000 Military dead:6,500 Civilian dead:24,000 Total dead:30,500 The Second Boer... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Siege of Ladysmith was a famous battle in the Boer War, taking place between 2 November 1899 and 28 February 1900. ... The Imperial Yeomanry was created on December 24, 1899 — most units being raised during 1900 and 1901 — to allow volunteer cavalry troops to fight as mounted infantry alongside regular troops of the British Army in the Second Boer War as, at that time, Yeomanry regiments had no obligation to fight...

Giles Foden's journalism is included in 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, a collection of short fiction set in Africa by various contemporary writers. His last novel, Zanzibar (2002), is set in East Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998. His latest book, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika, was published in 2004. (Source: Contemporary Writers in the UK) 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Reportage can be a single journalists report of news (especially when witnessed first-hand), distributed through the media. ... The Weekenders was a popular Disney animated series about the weekend life of four pre-adolescents: Tino Tonitini (Jason Marsden), Lor McQuarrie (Grey DeLisle), Carver Descartes (Phil LaMarr), and Petrotishkovna Tish Katsufrakis (Kath Soucie). ... This article is in need of attention. ... For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...  Eastern Africa (UN subregion)  East African Community  Central African Federation (defunct)  geographic, including above East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. ... This article is about explosive devices. ... A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ladysmith by author Giles Foden (Faber and Faber 1999)

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Selected bibliography

• The Last King of Scotland (1998)
• Ladysmith (1999)
• Zanzibar (2002)
• Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika (2004)

The Last King of Scotland is Giles Foden’s award-winning first novel. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Ladysmith is Giles Foden’s second novel. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Awards and Prizes

• 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) The Last King of Scotland
• 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award The Last King of Scotland
• 1999 Betty Trask Award The Last King of Scotland
• 1999 Somerset Maugham Award The Last King of Scotland
• 1999 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize The Last King of Scotland

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External links

• An Interview with Giles Foden and an excerpt from The Last King of Scotland on RandomHouse boldtype
• Contemporary Writers in the UK