Noel Barber
Noel Barber | |
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Born | September 9, 1909 |
Died | July 10, 1988 | (aged 78)
Noel Barber (9 September 1909 – 10 July 1988)[1] was a British novelist and journalist. Many of his novels, considered exotic,[clarification needed] are about his experiences as leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail. He was the son of John Barber and his Danish wife, Musse, and had two brothers: Kenneth, a banker, and Anthony Barber, Baron Barber.[2]
Most notably he reported from Morocco, where he was stabbed five times.[citation needed] In October 1956, Barber survived a gunshot wound to the head by a Soviet sentry in Hungary during the Hungarian revolution.[2] A car crash ended his career as journalist. He then began writing novels: he became a best-selling novelist in his seventies with his first novel, Tanamera.
Novels
- Tanamera: A Novel of Singapore (1981)
- A Farewell to France (1983)
- A Woman of Cairo (1984) Published in the United States as Sakkara (1985)
- The Other Side of Paradise (1986)
- The Weeping and the Laughter (1988)
- The Daughters of the Prince (1990)
Non-fiction
- Cities (1951) (with Rupert Croft-Cooke)[3]
- Fires of Spring (1952)
- Strangers in the Sun (1955)
- A Handful of Ashes: A Personal Testament of the Battle of Budapest (1957)
- The White Desert (1958)
- Distant Places (1959)
- The Flight of the Dalai Lama (1960)
- Life with Titina (1961)
- Adventures At Both Poles (1963)
- Conversations with Painters (1964)
- The Black Hole of Calcutta (1965)
- Let's Visit the USA (1967)
- Sinister Twilight: The Fall And Rise Again of Singapore (1968)
- From the Land of Lost Content (1969)
- The War of the Running Dogs: How Malaya Defeated the Communist Guerrillas, 1948-60 (1971)
- The Sultans (1973)
- Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk (1973)
- Seven Days of Freedom: Hungarian Uprising, 1956 (1974)
- The Week France Fell: June 10–16, 1940 (1976)
- The Natives Were Friendly So We Stayed the Night (1977)
- The Singapore Story (1978)
- Fall of Shanghai: Communist Takeover in 1949 (1979)
Adaptations
Tanamera was filmed as a television serial in 1989 as Tanamera – Lion of Singapore, while The Other Side of Paradise was filmed for TV in 1992 as The Other Side of Paradise.
References
- ^ Corfield, Justin (2010). Historical Dictionary of Singapore. Scarecrow Press. pp. 33–. ISBN 9780810873872.
- ^ a b "Noel Barber Dies at 78". Glasgow Herald. 11 July 1988. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
- ^ "Rupert Croft-Cooke: Bibliography". www.croft-cooke.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-01.