Boyd Oxlade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian novelist and screenwriter
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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Boyd Oxlade
- Boyd John Michael Oxlade (8 May 1943 – 24 January 2014) was an Australian author and screenwriter, best known for his novel Death in Brunswick, and the adapted screenplay, which he co-wrote. Oxlade was born in Sydney, and received a Jesuit education in Ireland and at Xavier College in Melbourne, and then studied at Monash University.He lived in Carlton North and worked as a nightclub cook and a gravedigger at Melbourne General Cemetery (which influenced some of the situations in his novel), then moved to Hobart for six years before returning to Melbourne.
- After a nine-year period of unemployment, he wrote the novel Death in Brunswick in the hope of making some money.
- The book was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1987, and the 1991 film adaptation—which Oxlade co-wrote with the film's director, John Ruane, and which starred Sam Neill, Zoe Carides and John Clarke—became a cult hit.Oxlade died of cancer on 24 January 2014, aged 70.
- At the time of his death, he was working on a novel Ron Elms, the Flying Butcher of Alamein, a reworking of a screenplay he had written several years earlier.
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