Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth (Ashford, Kent, 25 August 1938) is an English writer.



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[hide] *1 Youth 1938-1960  ==Youth 1938-1960[ Edit] == Frederick Forsyth was born in Great Britain in Ashford, Kent. He was placed on the famous English Tonbridge School, a boarding school which is part of the Etongroup. He was educated at Tonbridge school and at the University of Granada in Spain. He broke off his studies after only five months and returned to England. In may 1956 he joined on his nineteenth to the RAF as one of the youngest pilots. In 1958 he and became a journalist at the Eastern Daily Press in Norfolk. ==Journalist 1961-1969[ Edit] == In 1961, he joined Reuters work, first in Paris (where he among other things the attacks of the OAS on Charles de Gaulle defeated), and later in Eastern Europe. In 1965 he returned to England, and became a reporter for the BBC. In 1967 a civil war broke out in Nigeria from. The province of Biafra was in rebellion and there raged a battle between rebels and Government forces. Forsyth stayed from July to september in Biafra and defeated the war for his employer. In Biafra he had to deal with the world of mercenaries and the influence of politics on national and international conflicts. Forsyth was on the hand of the rebels from Biafra and this influenced his comments. The BBC was not happy with his bias and then when rumors came that Forsyth had falsified parts of his reports he got a lot of criticism. Forsyth withdrew the criticism very and resigned. He went back to work as a freelance correspondent and defeated for the Eastern Daily Press, Evening Standard and Time magazine war conflicts. He processed his experience with the conflict in Biafra in his book "The Biafra story" that appeared in 1969. ==Author 1970-present[ Edit] == In 1970 he had enough of the war and returned to England. He began work on a novel about a hit man who commissioned the OAS wants to commit an attack on president De Gaulle. Forsyth used for his novel the knowledge he had gained when he worked as a correspondent for Reuters in Paris. The OAS of Organisation de l ' Armée Secrète committed between 1961 and 1963 over a thousand attacks in France. The Group wanted this would prevent France from Algeria . Their biggest opponent was De Gaulle on whom three attacks. Forsyth puts ' being ' attack in 1963, after the attack by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiryat the Petit Clamart in 1962. He wrote the book in thirty-five days and he incorporated a bunch of things in the book that are based on careful research. Things like applying for a false passport or making a sniper rifle. Forsyth introduced a thriller that looks like a documentary. Each fact is verified, every street, square, governmental institution or officer is correct. Despite all this effort was the book initially refused untilHutchinson publishing house bought the manuscript and issued under the title The Day of The Jackal. The book became a bestseller and has since been made into a film twice.
 * 2 Journalist 1961-1969
 * 3 Author 1970-present
 * 4 Bibliography
 * 5 Filmography
 * 6 external links

After "The Day Of The Jackal" wrote Forsyth are still a great number of novels and story collections., always his penchant for facts is mixed with exciting, thriller-like stories. So he processed his experiences with the world of the mercenaries in The Dogs of War from 1974. But also his other work is full of solid research that are making extremely credible stories even though they are 100% fiction. So he interviewed in the preparation of The Devil's Alternative from 1979 the then Prime Minister of Netherlands Dries van Agt to find out how the Dutch Government would occur in the hostage-taking of an oil tanker. Many novels of Forsyth are translated into several languages and a large number of has now been made into a film. ==Bibliography<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1969 The Biafra Story
 * 1971 The Day of The Jackal; (Ned. transl.: 1972; The day of the Jackal; by: J.F. Niessen-Hossele)
 * 1972 The Odessa File; (Ned. vert.: 1973; Secret file: Odessa; by: J.F. Niessen-Hossele)
 * 1974 The Dogs of War; (ned. transl.: 1975; The dogs of war; by: Christopher Logue. 1984; The mercenaries; by: J.F. Niessen-Hossele and in: 2003; The slaves of the war; by: j. Niessen-Hossele)
 * 1975 The Shepherd
 * 1979 The Devil's Alternative; (Ned. vert.: 1979; The alternative of the devil; by: Pon rider)
 * 1982 Emeka
 * 1984 The fourth protocol; (Ned. transl.: 1984; The fourth protocol; by: Gerard Gamed)
 * 1986 No Comebacks; collection of short stories; with:
 * No Comebacks; There are no Snakes in Ireland; The Emperor; There are Some Days ...; Money with Menaces; Used in Evidence
 * Privilege; Duty; A Careful Man; Sharp Practice
 * appeared as Dutch translation under the title:
 * Night shift [1976], transl. by: Thomas Nicholas;
 * No turning back [1980], transl. by: J.F. Niessen-Hossele;
 * No gelazer afterwards [1982], transl. by: Thomas Nicholas;
 * There are no snakes in Ireland [1983]
 * 1989 The Negotiator; (Ned. transl.: 1989; The negotiator; by: Hugo Kamal | Nienke Kuipers-Clover
 * 1991 The Price of the Bride; (Ned. transl.: 1991; The dowry; by Marijke Versluys; Special Edition of Venco (drop))
 * 1991 Great Flying Stories; stories with fly stories of several authors
 * 1991 A little bit of sunshine; Ned. Ed. related to the month of the exciting book; (Ned. transl.: 1991; Hotbed; by: M.V. Versluys)
 * 1991 The Deceiver; (Ned. transl.: 1991; The traitor; by: M.V. Versluys)
 * 1994 The Fist of God; (Ned. vert.: 1994; The fist of God; by: John Smith)
 * 1996 Icon; (Ned. transl.: 1996; Icon; by: John Smith)
 * 1999 The Phantom of Manhattan; (Ned. transl.: 2000; The Phantom of Manhattan; by: Rie Nabavi)
 * 2001 The Veteran; (Ned. vert.: 2001; The veteran; by: Rogier van Kappel)
 * The Veteran; The Miracle; The Citizen; The Art of The Matter; Whispering Wind
 * 2003 Avenger; (Ned. transl.: 2003; The Avenger; by: Jacques Macdonald)
 * 2006 The Afghan; (Ned. transl.: 2006; The Afghan; by: Jacques Macdonald)
 * 2010 The Cobra; (Ned. vert.: 2010; The Cobra; by: Jacques Macdonald)
 * 2013 The Kill List;(Ned. Transl.: 2013; The Preacher; by: Jolanda t)
 * 1973 The Day of The Jackal; 145 E | I | F; Director: Fred Zinnemann; cast: Edward Fox | Terence Alexander
 * 1974 The Odessa File; 130 min.; E; Director: Ronald Neame; cast: Jon Voight | Maximilian Schell
 * 1980 Cry of the Innocent; T; 93 min.; E; Director: Michael O'Herlihy; cast: Rod Taylor | Joanna Pettet
 * 1980 The Dogs of War; 118 min.; E; Director: John Irvin; cast: Christopher Walken | Tom Berenger
 * 1987 The Fourth Protocol; 119 min.; E; Director: John Mackenzie; cast: Michael Caine | Pierce Brosnan
 * 1989 Just Another Secret; T; 100 min.; E; Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark; cast: Beau Bridges | Kenneth Cranham
 * 1990 The Price of the Bride; T; 97 min; E; Director: Tom Clegg; cast: Mike Farrell | Peter Egan
 * 1990 A Little Piece of Sunshine; T; 96 min.; E; Director: James Cellan Jones; cast: Larry Lamb | Chris Cooper
 * 1990 Death Has a Bad Reputation; T; 98 min.; E; Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark; cast: Tony Lo BiancoPamela Villoresi | Pamela Villoresi
 * 1990 Pride and Extreme Prejudice; T; 92 min.; E; Director: Ian Sharp; cast: Brian Dennehy | Simon Cadell
 * 1990 A Casualty of War; T; 98 min.; E; Director: Tom Clegg; cast: David Threlfall | Shelley Hack
 * 1996 Wolverine; 92 min.; E; Director: David Jackson; cast: Antonio Sabato Jr. | Richard Brooks
 * 2005 Icon; T 190 min.; E; Director: Charles Martin Smith; cast: Patrick Swayze | Patrick Bergin
 * 2006 Avenger; T; E; Director: Robert Markowitz; cast: Timothy Hutton | Lucy Russell