Gideon Defoe

Gideon Defoe
Born	(1975-12-26) 26 December 1975 London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Oxford University
Genre	Comedy
Subject	Pirates
Notable works	The Pirates! series

Gideon Defoe (born 26 December 1975) is a British writer and author of The Pirates!, a series of comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. He also wrote the screenplay for The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, which is an animated film based on the first novel in his The Pirates! series. According to his book, An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe also does film development work with Locksmith Animation and Studio Canal, and is developing a sitcom with BBC studios.

Bibliography

• The Pirates! 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)
• Other:
  • How Animals Have Sex (2005)
  • Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult (2014)
  • The Atlas of Extinct Countries (2020)

Awards

• 2012 Annie Awards: Nominated for Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Feature Production
• 2002 Adecco Temp Of The Month, Victoria Street branch

External links

• Official website
• Gideon Defoe's blog.