Dan van der Vat

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Daniel Francis Jeroen van der Vat (28 October 1939 – 9 May 2019)

naval history.[2]

Born in

St Cuthbert's Society, Durham University, from 1957 to 1960, graduating with a BA in Classics.[3]

He then became a graduate trainee on

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and later joined the Daily Mail in Manchester and returned to Newcastle as its regional chief reporter. He was recruited by The Sunday Times in 1965 and transferred to The Times in 1967. He was a foreign correspondent for ten years, opening The Times bureau in South Africa but was later expelled from the country after he had been described by the apartheid-era authorities as being a "pernicious liberal". Instead, he became the newspaper's bureau chief in Germany, but after Rupert Murdoch acquired The Times in 1981, he left and joined The Guardian the next year.[1] He served as the publication's chief foreign leader-writer before he left the title in 1988 to write books. He continued to write obituaries for The Guardian.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c Cecil, Desmond (20 May 2019). "Dan van der Vat obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 May 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Dan van der Vat, biography". Dan van der Vat. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Dan van der Vat". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2014.

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