Russell Braddon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian writer
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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Russell Braddon
- 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, 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.
- During this time he met Ronald Searle, whose Changi sketches illustrate The Naked Island.After the war, he went on to study law at University of Sydney.
- Nevertheless he failed to obtain a law degree (he maintained that he had lost interest in the subject) and he abandoned undergraduate life in 1948.In 1949, Braddon moved to England after suffering a mental breakdown and followed by a suicide attempt.
- Doctors attributed this breakdown to his POW experiences, and urged him to take a year to recuperate.
- 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.
- In addition, he was a frequent broadcaster on British radio and television.
- He died in 1995 at his home in Urunga, New South Wales, having returned to Australia two years before.Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon by Nigel Starck was published in Australia in 2011.
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