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{{short description|English novelist}}
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{{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]]<ref name="Guardian1">{{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}}</ref>
| occupation   = Novelist
| genre        = [[Historical fiction]]<br>[[Fantasy comedy]]
| subject      = [[Pirate]]s
| 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! In an Adventure with Scientists!|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)<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

===Other books===
*''How Animals Have Sex'' (2005)
*''Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult'' (2014)<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
*''An Atlas of Extinct Countries'' (2020)<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
! {{Refh}}
|-
| 2002 || [[Adecco]] Temp of the Month Award || {{N/A}} || {{N/A}} || {{Won}} || <ref>{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/gideondefoe/status/337868517267365888 | title=Tweeted picture of Adecco Temp of the Month certificate | accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
|-
| 2012 || [[40th Annie Awards]] || [[Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production|Writing in an Animated Feature Production]] || ''[[The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!|The Pirates! Band of Misfits]]'' || {{Nominated}} || <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.annieawards.org/nominees | title=40TH ANNUAL ANNIE AWARDS WINNERS | accessdate=2013-11-16}}</ref>
|}

==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:Living people]]
[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:British male novelists]]
[[Category:21st-century British male writers]]
[[Category:21st-century British non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:British humorists]]
[[Category:The Pirates!]]
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