Russell Braddon

Russell Braddon
Born Russell Reading Braddon
(1921-01-25)25 January 1921
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died 20 March 1995(1995-03-20) (aged 74)
New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation novelist

Russell Reading Braddon (25 January 1921 – 20 March 1995) was an Australian writer of novels, biographies and TV scripts. His chronicle of his four years as a prisoner of war, The Naked Island, sold more than a million copies.

Braddon was born in Sydney, Australia, the son of a barrister. He served in the Malayan campaign during World War II. He was held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in Pudu and Changi prisons and on the Thailand-Burma Railway between 1942 and 1945.[1][2] During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate The Naked Island.[3]

In 1949, Braddon moved to England. He described his writing career as "beginning by chance". The Naked Island, published in 1952, was one of the first accounts of a Japanese prisoner of war's experience.

Braddon went on to produce a wide range of works, including novels, biographies, histories, TV scripts and newspaper articles. He was also a broadcaster on radio and television.[4]

Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon by Nigel Starck was published in Australia in 2011.

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

Broadcasts

References

  1. ↑ "Prophet of Doom – but a smiling one" by Julie Kusko, The Australian Women's Weekly, 7 July 1971, p7
  2. ↑ "Fearless Man of Fighting Words", The Canberra Times, 28 March 1995, p9
  3. ↑ "The Belles of St. Trinian's: Little Monsters All", The Sun-Herald, 14 February 1954, p22
  4. ↑ IMDB – Russell Braddon (1921–1995)

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