Gideon Defoe
{{short description|English novelist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Gideon Defoe
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|12|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| nationality = English
| alma_mater = University of Oxford{{cite web | last=Burkeman | first=Oliver | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jun/10/fiction.oliverburkeman | title=How to make a book | publisher=guardian.co.uk | date=2005-06-10 | accessdate=2011-07-19}}
| occupation = Novelist
| genre = Historical fiction
Fantasy comedy
| subject = Pirates
| notableworks = The Pirates! book series
}}
Gideon Defoe (born 26 December 1975) is an English novelist of The Pirates!, a historical fiction fantasy comedy book series about a group of pirates on their adventures. He also wrote the screenplay for The Pirates! Band of Misfits which is an Aardman Animations stop-motion animated feature film based on The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the first book in The Pirates! book series. According to his 2020 book An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe also does film development work with Locksmith Animation and StudioCanal and is developing a TV sitcom with BBC Studios.
Bibliography
=''The Pirates!'' book series=
- The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists (2004)
- The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (2005)
- The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists (2006)
- The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon (2008)
- The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics (2012){{cite web | url=http://www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk/gideon-defoe/pirates-adventure-romantics | title=The Pirates! In An Adventure With The Romantics | publisher=Janklow & Nesbit Ltd | accessdate=2011-07-19 | archive-date=29 September 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929021014/http://www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk/gideon-defoe/pirates-adventure-romantics | url-status=dead }}
=Other books=
- How Animals Have Sex (2005)
- Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult (2014){{cite book|url=https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473201316|title=Gideon Defoe - Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult - Orion Publishing Group|date=13 July 2018|publisher=|isbn=978-1-4732-0131-6 }}
- An Atlas of Extinct Countries (2020){{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/countries-that-fell-off-the-map/index.html |title=New book 'Atlas of Extinct Countries' explores the places that fell off the map |author=Barry Neild |date=16 September 2020|publisher=CNN}}
Awards
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! Year ! Award ! Category ! Nominee ! Result ! {{Refh}} | |||||
| 2002 | Adecco Temp of the Month Award | {{N/A}} | {{N/A}} | {{Won}} | {{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/gideondefoe/status/337868517267365888 | title=Tweeted picture of Adecco Temp of the Month certificate | accessdate=2013-11-16}} |
| 2012 | 40th Annie Awards | Writing in an Animated Feature Production | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | {{Nominated}} | {{cite web | url=http://www.annieawards.org/nominees | title=40TH ANNUAL ANNIE AWARDS WINNERS | accessdate=2013-11-16}} |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.gideondefoe.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091225213420/http://gideondefoe.livejournal.com/ Gideon Defoe's blog].
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Category:21st-century British novelists
Category:British male novelists
Category:21st-century British male writers
Category:21st-century British non-fiction writers
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