David Baboulene Explained

David Baboulene
Birth Place:	London, England
Genre:	Story, humour, travel

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

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

• Book: Baboulene , David . Jumping Ships . 1st . 2009 . Summersdale Media Group . 978-1-84024-591-2 . 320 pp.
• Book: Baboulene , David . Ocean Boulevard . 1st . 2007 . Summersdale Media Group . 978-1-84024-590-5 . 320 pp.
• Book: Baboulene , David . The Blue Road . 1st . 2002 . Summersdale Media Group. . 978-1-84024-234-8 . 320 pp.

Children's books (illustrated by Kelly Chapman)

• Book: Baboulene , David . Kepple the Kite . 1st . 2008 . DreamEngine Media Ltd. . 978-0-9557089-0-9 . 32 pp.
• Book: Baboulene , David . Oopsie – I Forgot! . 1st . 2011 . DreamEngine Media Ltd. . 978-0-9557089-1-6 . 32 pp.

Story theory

• Book: Baboulene , David . The Story Book – Guidance for writers to story creation, optimisation and problem resolution . 1st . 2010 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 978-0-9557089-2-3 . 256 pp.
• Book: Baboulene , David . Story Theory – the psychological and linguistic foundations to how stories work . 1st . 2014 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 186 pp.
• Book: Baboulene, David . et al. Narrative and metaphor in education: Look both ways (Contributing author). . 2019. Routledge, New York.. 978-1-1383108-7-2. 32–45.
• Book: Baboulene , David . Story in Mind: A constructivist narratology . 1st . 2019 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 978-0-9557089-7-8 . 200 pp.
• Book: Baboulene , David . The Primary Colours of Story . 1st . 2020 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 186 pp.

External links

• Official UK David Baboulene website
• Summersdale Publishers
• DreamEngine Media Group Ltd

Notes and References

1. Book: Baboulene , David . Ocean Boulevard . 1st . 2007 . Summersdale Media Group . 978-1-84024-590-5 . 320 pp.
2. Book: Baboulene , David . Jumping Ships . 1st . 2009 . Summersdale Media Group . 978-1-84024-591-2 . 320 pp.
3. Web site: PREVIOUS EUROSCRIPT SCREENWRITING COMPETITION WINNERS – Euroscript . euroscript.co.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140105203047/http://www.euroscript.co.uk/previous-euroscript-screenwriting-competition-winners.html . 2014-01-05.
4. Book: Baboulene , David . The Story Book – Guidance for writers on story creation, optimisation and problem resolution . 1st . 2010 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 978-0-9557089-2-3 . 256 pp.
5. Book: Baboulene , David . Story Theory – the psychological and linguistic foundations to how stories work . 1st . 2014 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 186 pp.
6. Book: Baboulene , David . Story in Mind: A Constructivist Narratology . 1st . 2014 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 978-0-9557089-7-8 . 200 pp.
7. Book: Baboulene , David . The Primary Colours of Story: What stories are. How stories work . 1st . 2020 . DreamEngine Media Ltd . 978-0-9557089-7-8 . 186 pp.