| 词条 | Stephen Dando-Collins |
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He also writes children's novels, the first of which, Chance in a Million, (Hodder Headline, Sydney, 1998), was filmed by PolyGram as Paws, starring Billy Connolly. In 2012, he launched the critically acclaimed Caesar the War Dog series of children's novels, based on the true stories of modern-day military dogs serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere, with the fifth in the series published in 2016. He also contributes articles to various journals such as BBC History Magazine and Australian Heritage Magazine, and lectures about his books around the world. Dando-Collins was born in the Tasmanian city of Launceston on May 1, 1950, and went to school in Hobart. As a teenager he played drums in several rock bands, and at the age of 19 he was co-founder and first secretary of the Van Diemen Light Railway Society, which went on to create the Don River Railway, outside Devonport, Tasmania, today one of Australia's largest steam preservation railways. Dando-Collins confesses to still having steam in the blood. After working in advertising in Australia and Britain as a graphic designer, copywriter, creative director, and senior advertising agency executive, he became an independent marketing consultant in Sydney for several years. He ran the Australian operations of an American market research company before moving to Noosa Heads, and then to the Tamar Valley in Tasmania, where he writes full-time. He and his wife Louise, also an author, live in a former nunnery. Pasteur's Gambit won Dando-Collins a 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary awards. His work has been translated into a dozen languages around the world. Dando-Collins and his wife founded the highly successful Festival of Golden Words in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, which has become the Tamar Valley Writers Festival. Since his groundbreaking 2010 work Legions of Rome, (Quercus, London), Dando-Collins has focused on American World War I and World War II history and the biographies of Australians who have made a mark on the world stage. His New York literary agent has announced that he will be making a return to Roman history in 2019. His latest books include The Hero Maker, the first ever biography of Paul Brickhill, Australian-born author of The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky, the story of legless fighter pilot Douglas Bader; The Big Break:The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told; Mr Showbiz: The Biography of Robert Stigwood; and Heroes of Hamel: The Australians and Americans Whose WWI Victory Changed Modern Warfare. Says noted US military author Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman: 'Stephen Dando-Collins is a Cornelius Ryan, a Stephen Ambrose for a new generation.' [2] website: www.stephendando-collins.com [3] Books
References1. ^Open Letters Monthly, USA, Sept 2012 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dando-Collins, Stephen}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Big-Break-Greatest-American-Escape/dp/1250087562|title='The Big Break'|last=Grossman|first=Lt Col Dave|date=August 2016|website=amazon.com|publisher=|access-date=}} 3. ^Byron Bay Writer's Festival profile 4. ^Stephen Dando Collins and Jana Wendt 5. ^Book review - Pasteur’s Gambit, Stephen Dando-Collins 6. ^ereads.com 9 : Living people|20th-century Australian novelists|20th-century Australian male writers|21st-century Australian novelists|Australian historical novelists|Australian male novelists|Writers of historical fiction set in Antiquity|Year of birth missing (living people)|21st-century Australian male writers |
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