Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-03-07 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]
Also known As
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William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast, (present-day Ghana), to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana). In the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd's father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd spent his early life in Ghana an...
2009
2006
as Self
2005
as Author
1992
as Screenplay
1990
as Writer
1999
as Director
1994
as Writer
1985
as Writer
2001
as Screenplay
1991
as Screenplay
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as Writer
2005
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as Writer
1987
as Screenplay
2017
as Writer
1999
as Writer
1983
as Writer
1994
as Co-Producer
1994
as Novel
1988
as Screenplay
1988
as Novel
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