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William Boyd | Author
William Boyd is an author, screenwriter and playwright of world-wide acclaim. His novels such as Any Human Heart, Restless and A Good Man in Africa have been adapted for the screen, with Any Human Heart’s Channel 4 adaptation winning a BAFTA for ‘Best Series’ in 2010. His works have been translated into over thirty languages.
Born in Accra, Ghana, William Boyd has lived and worked around the world, studying at universities in Nice, Glasgow, and Oxford. He later lectured in English Literature at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and was awarded fellowships by both the Royal Society of Literature and Jesus College, Oxford. Boyd is an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was appointed CBE in 2005.
In 2013, he wrote Solo, a James Bond novel set six years after The Man with the Golden Gun, which follows Bond on a covert mission during a civil war in the fictional West African nation of Zanzarim.
