Giles Foden

Giles Foden is on the Advisory Board of Open Country Mag. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Last King of Scotland, which won the 1998 Whitbread First Novel Award and was released as an Oscar-winning film in 2007. He is the author of three other novels – Ladysmith, Zanzibar, and, most recently, Turbulence – and a work of narrative non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. He was a judge for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2007.