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Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Mark Dapin has worked as a journalist and editor. He came to Australia in the late 1980s.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • 2015 Fellowship of Australian Writers in Victoria : Excellence in Non-Fiction Award judges' Report for The Nashos' War :

    Mark Dapin's The Nashos War gives valuable insight into the Australian National Service Scheme and its effect on the individual serviceman.

  • Jewish Anzacs : Jews in the Australian Military (2017) traces the history of Australian born Jewish soldiers. 

  • Non-fiction/True Crime : Public Enemies : Ray Denning, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and the golden age of armed robbery (2020)

    Prison Break : Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton, The World's Most Wanted Australians (2021)

Personal Awards

2021 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best True Crime for 'Public Enemies'.
2015 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature — The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize or The Nashos’ War: Australia’s National Servicemen and Vietnam
2015 winner Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature or The Nashos’ War: Australia’s National Servicemen and Vietnam
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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Wolf Creek Australia : Screentime Emu Creek Pictures , 2016 9139518 2016 series - publisher film/TV horror

Series one: Mick Taylor terrorises and murders a family of American tourists–but teenage daughter Eve escapes and embarks on a plan of revenge.

Series two: Mick Taylor encounters a busload of international tourists.

For a full list of episodes, see Film Details.
2016 shortlisted AWGIE Awards — Television Award — Mini-series - Original
y separately published work icon R&R R & R Melbourne : Penguin , 2015 8798235 2015 single work novel

'Full of lacerating dialogue and typically sharp character portraits, R&R tells the story of US corporal John Ulysses Grant, aka Nashville, and his partner Shorty, an Australian military policeman, in the seaside resort of Vung Tau in South Vietnam, 1967. The Vietnam War rages across the country but Nashville's concerns are closer to home: how did a corpse, buried just days before, turn up in a local bar without any ears? Written with a brilliant, concise wit and brutal, uncompromising insight, R&R is a startlingly original portrait of men and war in the twilight zone behind the front, a searing study of the violence that we do to others, and ourselves.' (Publication summary)
2016 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
y separately published work icon Spirit House Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2011 Z1804028 2011 single work novel 'David is thirteen and confused. His mum has gone off with her lover and sent David to his grandparents in Bondi to give her new relationship some "space". Sometimes it breaks your heart to understand.

'David's grandfather, Jimmy, a Jewish war veteran and survivor of the Thai-Burma railway, is seventy. Haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, the only person he can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world. Sometimes it breaks your heart to be understood.

'Spirit House is a story of Changi and the Thai-Burma railway, of old men living with the horrors of their past, and about making sense of the daunting business of growing up.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
2012 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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