David Martin (poet)
David Martin Member of the Order of Australia (1988) (1991) Patrick White Award |
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David Martin
Biography
Martin was born in Budapest, but educated in Germany. He left Germany in 1934, spending time in the Netherlands, Hungary and
In 1938 Martin joined his father in London, working in his clothing factory, before moving to Glasgow in 1941 where he worked as a correspondent with the Daily Express. In 1941, Martin married Elizabeth Richenda Powell, great-granddaughter of the Quaker Elizabeth Fry. They had one son, Jan. Martin returned to London, working for the BBC until 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he was literary editor of Reynold's News. In 1948 he travelled to India as British correspondent for the Daily Express.[1]
Martin and his family settled in Australia from 1950, settling in Melbourne, where Martin commenced work as a freelance journalist and editor of the
In 1988, Martin was made a
One of his grandchildren, Toby Martin, is the guitarist and frontman of the rock band Youth Group.
Bibliography
- Battlefields and girls. 1942.
- Tiger Bay (1946)
- The Shoes Men Walk In (1946)
- The Shepherd and the Hunter (1946)
- Birth of a Miner (1949)
- The Stones of Bombay (1950)
- From Life (1953)
- Rob the Robber (1954)
- Poems of David Martin 1938-58 (1958)
- Spiegel the Cat (1961)
- The Young Wife (1962)
- Eight by Eight (1963)
- The Hero of Too (1965)
- "Amnesty International". Meanjin Quarterly. 24 (1): 129–131. March 1965.
- The Gift: Poems 1959-65 (1966)
- The King Between (1967)
- The Idealist (1968)
- Where a Man Belongs (1969)
- On the Road to Sydney (1970)
- Hughie (1971)
- Frank and Francesca (1972)
- Gary (1972)
- The Chinese Boy (1973)
- The Cabby’s Daughter (1974)
- Katie (1974)
- Mister P and his Remarkable Flight (1975)
- The Devilish Mystery of the Flying Mum (1977)
- The Man in the Red Turban (1978)
- I’ll Take Australia (1978)
- The Mermaid Attack (1978)
- I Rhyme My Time (1980)
- Foreigners (1981)
- Peppino (1983)
- Armed Neutrality for Australia (1984)
- The Girl Who Didn't Know Kelly (1985)
- Fox On My Door (1987)
- The Kitten Who Wouldn’t Purr (1987)
- Clowning Sim (1988)
- My strange Friend: An Autobiography (1991)
- David Martin’s Beechworth book: poems (1993)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Biographical Note". MS 6885 Papers of David Martin (1915 - 1997). National Library of Australia. 13 November 2003. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "Martin, David". It's An Honour: Australia Celebrating Australians. Australian Government. 26 January 1988. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
AM. AD88. For Service To Australian Literature