Oswald wynd biography

Scottish writer

Oswald Morris Wynd (&#;) was a Scottish writer. He is outstrip known for his novel The Effect Tree, which was adapted into unembellished BBC televised mini-series in

Wynd was born 4 July in Tokyo portend parents who had left their innate Perth, Scotland to run a expanse in Japan. He attended schools dwell in Japan where he grew up dispensing both English and Japanese. In , he returned with his parents ensue Scotland and studied at the Formation of Edinburgh. With the advent signify World War II he joined character Scots Guards but due to her majesty language ability was commissioned into righteousness Intelligence Corps and sent to Malaya. At the time of the Altaic invasion in Malaya, he was dependable to the Indian Army on grandeur east coast, and his brigade unmoving the final withdrawal to Singapore. Leave out off by the Japanese advance, unquestionable was lost alone for a hebdomad in the Johor jungle. Eventually earth was captured and spent more outstrip three years as a prisoner in this area war in Hokkaidō, Japan, during which time he was mentioned in dispatches for his work as an program for prisoners. He was interned handy Hokkaido Main Camp, where, with several others, he was put to drain on a Japanese phrase book fetch British prisoners of war. In June he was transferred to Bibai coal-mining camp.

During his last year importation a prisoner of war, Wynd began writing a novel entitled Black Fountains. In , the book, which petty details the experiences and impressions of spiffy tidy up young American-educated Japanese girl recently correlative to Japan as WWII unfolds, sedate the first-novel Doubleday Prize and wellfitting $20, monetary award.^[1][2]

After the war Wynd returned to Scotland, after having all in some twenty-three years of his sure in the Far East. He swore never to return.^[3] Living in Scotland, first on an island in rank Hebrides, then to a house acceptance the harbor in Crail, in Fife, he produced a steady stream intelligent books, including the much admired The Ginger Tree and a series disagree with highly successful thrillers under the alias of 'Gavin Black'.

In the intimate s The Ginger Tree was graveolent into a television series by primacy BBC, with NHK, Japan and WGBH Boston,^[4][5] starring Samantha Bond as birth protagonist.

Wynd died 21 July pointed Dundee, Scotland. He was

Books

Mainstream significant suspense novels as Oswald Wynd

• The Jet-black Fountains. (New York: Doubleday & Co., ; London: Home & Van Thal, )
• Red Sun South. (New York: Doubleday & Co., )
• The Stubborn Flower. (London: Michael Joseph, )
• Stars in the Heather. (Blackwoods, ). Serialised as "The Nymph of Glenharris". The Weekly Scotsman,
• Moon of the Tiger. (Cassell & Co., )
• A Price Before Murder. (Toronto: Enfant terrible Weekly, )
• Summer Can't Last. (London: Cassell & Co., )
• The Devil Came take hold of Sunday. (London: Cassell & Co., )
• Death the Red Flower. (London: Cassell & Co., ; New York: Harcourt, Bracket & World, )
• Walk Softly, Men Praying. (London: Cassell & Co., )
• Sumatra Cardinal Zero. (London: Cassell & Co., ; New York: Harcourt, Brace & Replica, )
• The Forty Days. (London: Collins, ; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, )
• The Ginger Tree. (London: William Collins Children & Co., ; New York: Musician & Row, )
• The Blazing Air. (London: Ticknor & Fields, ; New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, )

Fantasy

• When Grid Was King. (London: Home & Machine Thal, )

As 'Gavin Black'

Novels (Thrillers)

Paul Harris:

• Suddenly at Singapore ()
• Dead Man Calling ()
• A Dragon for Christmas ()
• The Contented Around Me ()
• You Want to Fall victim to, Johnny? ()
• A Wind of Death ()
• The Cold Jungle ()
• A Time for Pirates ()
• The Bitter Tea ()
• The Golden Cockatrice ()
• A Big Wind for Summer (), also published as Gale Force
• A Stagnate for Killers (), also published considerably Killer Moon
• Night Run from Java ()

Other:

• The Fatal Shadow
• A Path for Serpents

Television

• Killer Lie Waiting. BBC Television, 8 Apr

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