Daniel Carney
{{Short description|Zimbabwean writer (1944–1987)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1944|8|8}}
| birth_place = Beirut, Lebanon
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1987|1|6|1944|8|8}}
| death_place = Harare, Zimbabwe
| occupation = Fiction writer
| nationality = Rhodesian
| period = 1969–1985
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| notableworks = The Wild Geese (1977)
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| relatives = Erin Pizzey (sister)
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Daniel Carney (8 August 1944 – 6 January 1987) was a Rhodesian novelist.{{Citation
| title = Writer Carney Dead at Age 42
| newspaper = Reading Eagle
| date = 1987-01-09
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gw0xAAAAIBAJ&pg=6359,6402758
| access-date =2010-01-06
}}
Three of his novels have been made into films. Carney was a brother of Erin Pizzey, a British writer and feminist activist.{{cite web|url=http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/474992.print/|title=We gave women back a sense of self |date=29 March 2004 |newspaper=Richmond and Twickenham Times|access-date=6 September 2016}}
Biography
Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128299.Daniel_Carney|title=Daniel Carney|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016}} In 1963, he settled in Southern Rhodesia (soon to be renamed Rhodesia) and joined the British South Africa Police (BSAP), where he served for three and a half years. In 1968, he co-founded the estate agents Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He died of cancer in 1987.OBITUARY
Moncur, Andrew. The Guardian (1959–2003) [London (UK)], 10 January 1987: 32.
After his death, ownership rights in his novels and the films based on them passed to his family.{{Citation needed|date= May 2018}} The family have consistently withheld permission to reproduce Daniel's novels, and have opposed re-release or sales of the movies based on the novels.{{Citation needed|date= May 2018}} In 2005, Tango Entertainment released a 30th-anniversary edition of The Wild Geese (1978). The film had been hampered by the collapse of its American distributor, Allied Artists. As a result, the film was only partially distributed in the United States, where it was a box-office disappointment, despite being the 13th-highest-grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.{{Citation needed|date= May 2018}}
Published works
- {{cite book|title=The Whispering Death (1969)|isbn= 0-552-11353-0|last1= |first1= |date= 1980|publisher= Transworld Publishers Limited}} Set in Rhodesia, the book was adapted as a 1976 movie titled Whispering Death, a.k.a. Night of the Askaris, Death in the Sun, and Albino.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074108/|title=The Night of the Askari|date=1 February 1978|website=IMDb|accessdate=6 September 2016}}
- {{cite book|title=The Wild Geese (1977)|isbn=0-552-10869-3 |last1= |first1= |date=1978 |publisher=Corgi }} (Originally titled The Thin White Line.) Set in the Congo, it was adapted as the film The Wild Geese (1978), with a screenplay by Reginald Rose (author of 12 Angry Men).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078492/|title=The Wild Geese|date=11 November 1978|website=IMDb|accessdate=6 September 2016}}
- {{cite book|title=Under a Raging Sky (1980)}} Set in Rhodesia, its film rights were optioned by Euan Lloyd, producer of The Wild Geese and Wild Geese II, but the project was not filmed.{{cite news|title=The Euan Lloyd Interview Part 1|magazine=Cinema Retro}}
- {{cite book|title=The Square Circle (1982)|isbn=0-553-25380-8|last1=|first1=|date=July 1987|publisher=Bantam Books }} Set in Germany and republished as The Wild Geese II and The Return of the Wild Geese, the novel was adapted as a movie titled Wild Geese II (1985).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090323/|title=Wild Geese II|date=18 October 1985|accessdate=6 September 2016|website=IMDb}}
- {{cite book|title=Macau (1985)|isbn= 0-917657-10-1|last1= |first1= |year= 1985|publisher= D.I. Fine}} is set in Macau.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2089672}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131227130932/http://davidmichie.com/blog/2013/12/07/the-dalai-lamas-cat-and-the-out-of-africa-connection/ Photo of Carney's grave in Zimbabwe]
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Category:20th-century male writers
Category:20th-century novelists
Category:British emigrants to Southern Rhodesia
Category:British expatriates in Lebanon
Category:British South Africa Police officers
Category:Deaths from cancer in Zimbabwe
Category:White Rhodesian people
Category:Zimbabwean male novelists