Giles Foden

Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)[1] is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998).

Giles William Thomas Foden[1] was born in Warwickshire in 1967, the son of Jonathan, an agricultural adviser, and Mary, a farmer.

On his grandfather's death, the family sold their farm and in 1972 moved to Malawi in south-eastern Africa.

Giles Foden edited The Guardian Century (1999), a collection of the best reportage and feature-writing published in the newspaper during the twentieth century, and he contributed a short story to The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa, a collection of short fiction set in Africa by various contemporary writers.

Zanzibar (2002), is set in east Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998.