Occupation Fiction writer Name Daniel Carney Nationality Rhodesian Role Novelist | Period 1969–1985 Siblings Erin Pizzey | |
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Born January 1, 1944
Beirut, Lebanon ( 1944-01-01 ) Died January 9, 1987, Harare, Zimbabwe Books The Wild Geese, The Square Circle, Whispering Death, Under a raging sky, Return of the Wild Geese, Macau | ||
Notable works The Wild Geese (1977) | ||
Daniel Carney (1944–1987) was a Rhodesian novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films. He was a brother of Erin Pizzey, also a writer.
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Biography
Daniel Carney was born in Beirut in 1944, a son of British diplomat. In 1963, he settled in Rhodesia and joined the British South Africa Police, where he served for three and a half years. In 1968, he co-founded the real-estate firm Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He died of cancer in 1987.
After his death, ownership rights of his novels and the films based on them passed to his family. They have consistently withheld permission to reproduce Daniel's novels, and have opposed re-release or sales of the movies based on the novels. 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 fourteenth-highest-grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.