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Dan Davin

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New Zealand writer, (1913-1990)

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Daniel Marcus Davin, generally known as Dan Davin, was an author who wrote about New Zealand, although for most of his career he lived in Oxford, England, working for Oxford University Press.

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Awards 3

1984honorary doctor of the University of Otago
1936Rhodes Scholarship
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Daniel Marcus Davin, generally known as Dan Davin, was an author who wrote about New Zealand, although for most of his career he lived in Oxford, England, working for Oxford University Press. The themes of his earliest fiction, in short stories that include Saturday Night, Late Snow, The Apostate, The Basket, The Vigil, and The Milk Round, were about "Mick Connolly" and his Irish Catholic family in largely Protestant Southland.

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New Zealand
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1913 to 1990 · aged 77
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5 languages

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