Mark Dapin
Auteur van 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010
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Mark Dapin is the author of The Nacho's War: Australia's National Servicemen in Vietnam, which won the Waverly Library Award 2015 in the People's Choice category. (Bowker Author Biography)
Werken van Mark Dapin
Fridge Magnets are Bastards an A-Z Rant About Annoying People and Useless Things in the Modern World (2007) 16 exemplaren
Sex and Money: How I Lived, Breathed, Read, Wrote, Loved, Hated, Slept, Dreamed and Drank Men's Magazines (2004) 12 exemplaren
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- Ned Kelly Award 2010
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- Mark Dapin is an author, journalist, editor and lecturer. He has published three non-fiction books, Sex and Money, Fridge Magnets Are Bastards, and the best-selling travel memoir, Strange Country. Mark works as a features writer and weekly columnist for Good Weekend magazine in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age. In a previous life, he was the editor of Ralph. His first novel, ‘King of the Cross’, was published to wide acclaim by Pan Macmillan last year.Mark has served time as a subeditor on The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Woman’s Day, Cleo and Penthouse, among others, and written features, columns, short stories and essays for scores of publications from Meanjin to Cosmopolitan.
He also conceived and taught a postgraduate summer school in magazine journalism at the University of Sydney.
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Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs history door Mark Dapin
A significant reminder that our views of the past are influenced by the current culture and selective reporting and story telling. This well researched book is not one that covers the war in any significant manner but rather one that records actual views of the war on the Homefront at the time (including changes over time from the early 60's to the early 70s) - and compares them with the accepted thinking today. There is often quite a difference, most notably how modern Australian views the war and how it was received at home is heavily influenced by US based reporting and commentary - often quite differently than in Oz.… (meer)
An excellent accounting of a number of myths about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Each chapter deals with a different myth and I think does a good job sorting out fact from myth. I should also point out that it is quite well written and at times funny. Highly recommended to anyone interested in Australia's role in the Vietnam War, in both Australia and South Vietnam.
A thorough and tenacious examination of the evidence that Australian Vietnam War veterans were abused and shunted aside upon their return to Australia. They weren't, at least not to the degree that the popular myth tells.
Very enjoyable collection of Australian short-fiction.
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