Clive Barry

Clive Stephen Barry
Barry pictured in 1958
Born	Clive Stephen Barry (1922-09-02)2 September 1922 Manly
Died	25 August 2003(2003-08-25) (aged 80) Mosman
Occupation	Novelist, travel writer
Nationality	Australian

Clive Stephen Barry (2 September 1922 – 25 August 2003) was an Australian novelist and inaugural winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature as a "vivid stylist with a capacity for dry humour".^[1]

Background

At only sixteen years of age Barry served in World War II – falsifying his date of birth in order to enlist.^[2][3] He was mentioned in despatches and went missing in action before he was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald to be a POW in Italy. He escaped two years later and crawled barefoot, without food or water, over the Dolomites to Switzerland. His experiences inside the POW would directly influence his 1965 novel Crumb Borne.^[4]

In 1961 he was appointed the United Nations representative in the Congo.

Select Works

• Tailormade - radio play

See also

• List of solved missing person cases

References

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