Giles Foden
Giles Foden
Giles Fodenis an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland...
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I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
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My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
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The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.
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I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.
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The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
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Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.