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The Last King of Scotland

by Giles Foden

Betty Trask · 1999 · WinnerCosta Book · 1998 · Winner
Historical FictionISBN 9780307808547

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Betty Trask Award1999Winner
Costa Book of the YearCosta First Novel Award1998Winner

About the Author

Giles Foden is an English author born on 11 January 1967 in Warwickshire, best known for his debut novel The Last King of Scotland (1998), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, Betty Trask Award, Somerset Maugham Award, and Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and was adapted into a film.

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