In 1983, Bill Buford, editor of
Granta, devoted its seventh issue to present a record of some of the most promising young British novelists, among whom were authors that are now solidly consolidated in the British letters: Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Caryl Phillips and William Boyd himself. Although Boyd had only published two novels by that time –
A Good Man in Africaand
An Ice-Cream War– and a collection of short stories –
On the Yankee Station(1983) – he was already a recognised writer, winner of the Whitbread Literary Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for
A Good Man in Africaand the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for
An Ice-Cream War, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Since then, the author has published…
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Citation: Elices , Juan F.. "William Boyd". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 April 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=516, accessed 23 April 2024.]