David Baboulene

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David Baboulene
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BornLondon, England
Occupation
  • Narrative theorist
  • story consultant
  • author
Genre Story, humour, travel
Website
www.baboulene.com

David Baboulene, is an English academic, story consultant, and author of humorous travel books, children's illustrated stories and academic works on story theory.

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Life

David Baboulene was born in Kenley, to the south of London, UK. He attended Oxted School in Oxted, Surrey, but dropped out at the age of 16 to undertake an apprenticeship in the British Merchant Navy. His experiences from his work on cargo ships are documented in his books Ocean Boulevard [1] and Jumping Ships, [2] which recount his adventures around the world.

In 2003, Baboulene won the Euroscript Film Story competition [3] – a Europe-wide competition sponsored by the European Film Commission. The first prize was to work with a professional scriptwriter to develop the story into a full screenplay. His interest in story theory developed from this point, leading ultimately to a PhD for his research into Narrative Theory from the University of Brighton in 2017.

Baboulene has subsequently written four practical academic works on Story Theory: The Story Book (2010), [4] Story Theory (2014), [5] Story in Mind (2019), [6] and The Primary Colours of Story (2020), [7]

Bibliography

Travel books

Children's books (illustrated by Kelly Chapman)

Story theory

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References

  1. Baboulene, David (2007). Ocean Boulevard (1st ed.). Summersdale Media Group. pp. 320 pp. ISBN   978-1-84024-590-5.
  2. Baboulene, David (2009). Jumping Ships (1st ed.). Summersdale Media Group. pp. 320 pp. ISBN   978-1-84024-591-2.
  3. "PREVIOUS EUROSCRIPT SCREENWRITING COMPETITION WINNERS – Euroscript". euroscript.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014.
  4. Baboulene, David (2010). The Story Book – Guidance for writers on story creation, optimisation and problem resolution (1st ed.). DreamEngine Media Ltd. pp. 256 pp. ISBN   978-0-9557089-2-3.
  5. Baboulene, David (2014). Story Theory – the psychological and linguistic foundations to how stories work (1st ed.). DreamEngine Media Ltd. pp. 186 pp.
  6. Baboulene, David (2014). Story in Mind: A Constructivist Narratology (1st ed.). DreamEngine Media Ltd. pp. 200 pp. ISBN   978-0-9557089-7-8.
  7. Baboulene, David (2020). The Primary Colours of Story: What stories are. How stories work (1st ed.). DreamEngine Media Ltd. pp. 186 pp. ISBN   978-0-9557089-7-8.