Daniel Carney | |
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Born | Beirut, Lebanon | 8 August 1944
Died | 6 January 1987 Harare, Zimbabwe | (aged 42)
Occupation | Fiction writer |
Nationality | Rhodesian |
Period | 1969–1985 |
Notable works | The Wild Geese (1977) |
Relatives | Erin Pizzey (sister) |
Daniel Carney (8 August 1944 – 6 January 1987) was a Rhodesian novelist. [1] Three of his novels have been made into films. Carney was a brother of Erin Pizzey, a British writer and feminist activist. [2]
Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat. [3] 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. [4]
After his death, ownership rights in his novels and the films based on them passed to his family.[ citation needed] 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] 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]