Gideon Defoe

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.

Gideon Defoe
Born	(1975-12-26) 26 December 1975 (age 49) London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	English
Alma mater	University of Oxford[1]
Genre	Historical fiction Fantasy comedy
Subject	Pirates
Notable works	The Pirates! book series

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)^[2]

Other books

• How Animals Have Sex (2005)
• Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult (2014)^[3]
• An Atlas of Extinct Countries (2020)^[4]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
2002	Adecco Temp of the Month Award	—	—	Won	[5]
2012	40th Annie Awards	Writing in an Animated Feature Production	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Nominated	[6]