William Boyd
William Boyd's books include A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; and Ordinary Thunderstorms.
From the author's 2007 Q & A with Rosanna Greenstreet in the Guardian:
Read the complete Q & A.What is your favourite book?
The collected stories of Anton Chekhov.
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What is your favourite word?
It changes all the time. At the moment 'luminosity'. Last week 'riverine'.
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Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?
William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Anton Chekhov, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Brooks, Barbara Skelton.
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What keeps you awake at night?
The human condition.
Learn about the importance of his characters' names to Boyd.
--Marshal Zeringue
