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David Martin

デイヴィッド・マーティン

Deividdo Mātin

Aliases: Lajos Detsinyi / Ludwig Detsinyi / Louis Adam / Louis Destiny

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1915-12-22 （Budapest, Austria-Hungary）
Died
1997-07-01 （Beechworth, Victoria, Australia） age 81
Nationality
Hungarian, Australian
Languages
English, Hungarian, German
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Budapest, Hungary → Germany → Netherlands → Hungary → Palestine → Spain → London, UK → Glasgow, UK → India → Melbourne, Australia → Beechworth, Victoria, Australia

Career

Occupations
Novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer, lecturer
Active Years
1942-1997
Affiliations
BBC, Reynold's News, Daily Express, Australian Jewish News
Memberships
Communist Party of Australia (1951-1959)

Awards

Member of the Order of Australia
1988
Organization: Australian Government
Result: 受賞
Patrick White Award
1991
Organization: Patrick White Literary Award Trustees
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Battlefields and girls

1942 Poetry collection

The Shoes Men Walk In

1946 Poetry collection

Tiger Bay

1946 Novel

The Young Wife

1962 Novel

Peppino

1983 Children's novel

Bibliography

  • Battlefields and girls (1942)
  • Trident (1944)
  • Rhyme and Reason : Thirty-Four Poems (1944)
  • The Shoes Men Walk In (1946)
  • Tiger Bay (1946)
  • From Life : Selected Poems (1953)
  • Poems of David Martin 1938-58 (1958)
  • The Gift: Poems 1959-65 (1966)
  • The Idealist (1968)
  • The Stones of Bombay (1950)
  • The Young Wife (1962)
  • The Hero of Too (1965)
  • The King Between (1966)
  • Where a Man Belongs (1969)
  • Hughie (1971)
  • Frank and Francesca (1972)
  • Gary (1972)
  • The Chinese Boy (1973)
  • Katie (1974)
  • The Cabby’s Daughter (1974)
  • Mister P and his Remarkable Flight (1975)
  • The Devilish Mystery of the Flying Mum (1977)
  • The Mermaid Attack (1978)
  • The Man in the Red Turban (1978)
  • Peppino Says Goodbye (1980)
  • I Rhyme My Time : A Selection of Poems for Young People (1980)
  • Foreigners (1981)
  • Peppino Turns His Luck (1982)
  • Peppino (1983)
  • Peppino in the Tobacco War (1984)
  • The Girl Who Didn't Know Kelly (1985)
  • The Kitten Who Wouldn’t Purr (1987)
  • Clowning Sim (1988)
  • The Shepherd and the Hunter (1946)
  • Spiegel the Cat (1961)
  • On the Road to Sydney (1970)
  • Fox On My Door (1987)
  • My Strange Friend: An Autobiography (1991)
  • David Martin’s Beechworth book: poems (1993)

Legacy

Hungarian-born Australian poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist who contributed significantly to Australian literature, with a background in Jewish family, participation in the Spanish Civil War, and extensive journalistic work.

Archives

  • National Library of Australia (MS 6885 Papers of David Martin)

In Popular Culture

  • One of his grandchildren, Toby Martin, is the guitarist and frontman of the rock band Youth Group.

Trivia

  • Served as a volunteer in the medical service of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.
  • Was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1951 until asked to resign in 1959.