William Boyd interviewed by Tamsin Greig
A live interview with William Boyd, by Tamsin Greig, talking about his 16th novel Trio.
A conversation with William Boyd
Refulgent mid-February sunshine makes the bar at the Chelsea Arts Club glow. Nine months on, that now seems another era, when William Boyd – in a smart jacket offset by an open shirt collar – was sitting, a glass of red wine to hand, soon after completing his sixteenth novel, Trio. That winter’s day, we were […]
The spies who lived here: How I found James Bond’s precise address
I AM IN LONDON. In Chelsea to be precise, at the entrance to Wellington Square off the King’s Road, where I am being interviewed for the French radio station RTL – à distance sociale – about James Bond. The reason why we’re at Wellington Square is because this is where James Bond lived. Obviously, James […]
William Boyd interviewed at the Duchess Theatre
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter William Boyd talks about his writing process, his film and television experiences from Chaplin to Cork, chimpanzees, what makes his favourite films and what he had for breakfast.
A Life In Books
5 books that are most important to me.The Collected Stories of Anton ChekhovThe greatest short story writer the world has ever seen. Stories, well over a hundred years old now, that read as if they were written for 2007: dry, absurd, resolutely secular — the most honest clear-eyed look at the strange tragi-comedy of our […]
The Poet’s Sleep
I am lucky enough to be a sound sleeper, in the main, though, like everyone, when my brain is racing I have my ‘nuits blanches’ from time to time. However, my sound sleep is not uninterrupted. Two things wake me in the night: recurring dreams and what I can only describe as ‘London’. I have […]
O Globo Magazine Interview with William Boyd
1. You were born in Ghana and lived there and in Nigeria for many years. How did that experience influence your work? I think it has had a huge effect on my work but I’m reluctant to analyse that effect too closely. Because I was born in Africa and grew up there I think my […]
Reading Group Q & A with William Boyd
1. How did the idea of writing Ordinary Thunderstorms come to mind and was there any particular challenge involved? It’s a complicated answer. First of all I had the large and vague ambition of writing a novel about London, contemporary London, a city I’ve lived in now for over a quarter of a century. But how to […]
Q & A with William Boyd in the Guardian, February 2007.
William Boyd, 54, was born in Ghana, where his mother was a teacher and his father a doctor. He was a junior don at Oxford and working as a journalist when his first novel, A Good Man In Africa, was published in 1981. It won the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is the author of […]
Le Point interview with William Boyd.
The French Academy has just launched a website to warn against the most frequent and « ridiculous » errors in the use of the French language. What do you think of such an initiative? Do you think languages should be protected from impoverishering or evolving? It’s very difficult to protect languages. You can issue all […]