Daniel Carney (1944–1987) was a Rhodesian novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films. He was a brother of

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, also a writer.

Biography

Daniel Carney was born in

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in 1944, a son of a British diplomat. In 1963, he settled in

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(soon to be renamed

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) and joined the

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(BSAP), where he served for three and a half years. In 1968, he co-founded the

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Fox and Carney in

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. 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 ''

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'' (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

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, despite being the fourteenth-highest-grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.

Published works

* , set in Rhodesia, was adapted as a 1976 movie titled '' Whispering Death'', a.k.a. ''Night of the Askaris'', ''Death in the Sun'', and ''Albino''. * (originally titled ''The Thin White Line''), set in the Congo, was adapted as the film ''

'' (1978), with a screenplay by

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(author of ''

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''). * , is set in Rhodesia. Its film rights were optioned by

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, producer of ''The Wild Geese'' and ''Wild Geese II'', but the project was not filmed. * , set in Germany and republished as ''The Wild Geese II'' and ''The Return of the Wild Geese'', was adapted as a movie titled ''

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'' (1985). * is set in

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References

External links

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Photo of Carney's grave in Zimbabwe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carney, Daniel 1944 births 1987 deaths Rhodesian novelists Zimbabwean novelists Zimbabwean male writers Male novelists British South Africa Police officers 20th-century novelists British emigrants to Rhodesia Deaths from cancer in Zimbabwe Writers from Beirut 20th-century male writers White Rhodesian people Zimbabwean people of British descent People from Harare