Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Newfoundlander until 31 March 1949 Canadian after 31 March 1949 Family: Evan dyer and Owen dyer (1968), Kate Dyer (1992), Melissa Howells (1983) - children Ana Lucia dyer (2006),Emilia dyer (2001), George Dyer (2006), james Dyer (2008), Alice Rilley (2019) a - grandchildren |
Occupation | Journalist |
Website | http://www.GwynneDyer.com |
Gwynne Dyer, OC (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian.
Life
Dyer was born in St. John's, Newfoundland (present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; a Master of Arts in military history from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Military and Middle Eastern history at King's College London in 1973.[1] Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British naval reserves. He was employed as a senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973–77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the Arab–Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism. Dyer was the O.D. Skelton Memorial lecturer on March 23, 1998, in St. John's, Newfoundland.[2] In the fall of 2002 Royal Roads University awarded Dyer an Honorary Degree.[3] In 2010, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.[4]
Circulation
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Dyer writes a column on international affairs which is published in over 175 papers in at least 45 countries.[5] Some papers that use Dyer's column regularly include:
- Adevarul (Bucharest)
- Arab News (Saudi Arabia)
- Bangkok Post
- Barbados Advocate
- Buenos Aires Herald
- Canberra Times
- Cape Times
- The Citizen (Johannesburg)
- The Courier (Ballarat)
- Cyprus Mail
- Daily News and Analysis (Bombay)
- Dawn (Karachi)
- Dawson Creek Daily News
- Le Droit (Ottawa)
- Egypt Today
- Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
- The Hitavada (India)
- Hurriyet Daily News (Istanbul)
- Information (Copenhagen)
- Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
- The Japan Times
- Jerusalem Post
- Jordan Times
- Lidové noviny (Prague)
- The Moscow Times
- New Vision (Uganda)
- The New Zealand Herald
- NOW (Toronto)
- NRC Handelsblad (Rotterdam)
- The Pioneer (New Delhi)
- La Presse (Montreal)
- South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
- De Standaard (Brussels)
- The Star (Nairobi)
- Straits Times (Singapore)
- Tehran Times
- Trinidad Express
- Winnipeg Free Press
- The Portugal News(Portugal)
- Zimbabwe Independent
In the United States, his column appears in the Cincinnati Post, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, Hartford Courant, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Raleigh News & Observer, The Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salt Lake Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Toledo Blade, Winston-Salem Journal and about twenty other papers. Older articles are available online at the columnist's official website.
Works
Books
- War (1985) ISBN 0-517-55615-4 - Awarded the Columbia University School of Journalism award in 1986.[3]
- The Defence of Canada: In the Arms of the Empire (1990) ISBN 0-7710-2975-6
- Ignorant Armies: Sliding Into War in Iraq (2003) ISBN 0-7710-2977-2
- Future: Tense: The Coming World Order (2004) ISBN 0-7710-2978-0
- With Every Mistake (2005) ISBN 0-679-31402-4
- War: The Lethal Custom (2005) ISBN 0-7867-1538-3
- The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq (2007) ISBN 0-7710-2980-2
- After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. 2008 ISBN 9780312378455; German edition ISBN 3593387050
- Climate Wars (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-35583-6
- Crawling from the Wreckage (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-35891-2
- Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 (2014) ISBN 978-0-307-36168-4 eBook ISBN 978-0-307-36170-7
- Don't Panic: Islamic State Terrorism and the Middle East (2015) ISBN 978-0-345-81586-6
- Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy and Work (2018) ISBN 978-1-925-32263-7
Documentaries
- War (miniseries) (1983 8-part miniseries) was adapted from his 1985 book War by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and was broadcast in 45 countries including by the BBC and PBS. The third part of the series titled The Profession of Arms was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The series won an ACTRA Award and the Public Jury’s Grand Prize at the International Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland.[3] His collaborator was Tina Viljoen.[2]
- The Defence of Canada (1986) A collaboration with Tina Viljoen for the NFB and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)[2]
- Harder Than It Looks (1987)
- The Human Race (1994) - Examines the roots, nature and future of human politics. [2]
- Protection Force (1995) - A three-part series on peacekeepers in Bosnia.[3]
Radio series
- Seven Faces of Communism (1978) - A seven-part radio and TV series produced for the CBC and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), 1978.[1]
- Brazil (1979)
- The Catholic Counter-Revolution (1980)
- War (1981)
- The Gorbachev Revolution (1988–90)
- Millennium (1996)
- Climate Wars on CBC Radio Ideas (2008)(3-part documentary)
See also
References
- ^ a b "Dyer, Gwynne 1943-". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Mr. Gwynne Dyer". international.gc.ca. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Gwynne Dyer". royalroads.ca. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ "Governor General announces 74 new appointments to the Order of Canada". gg.ca. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
- ^ Gwynne Dyer's official website
External links
- Official website
- Gwynne Dyer at IMDb
- Profile
- Dyer interviewed on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast.
- The Mess They Made on YouTube, a clip of Dyer answering questions about the book.
- Pakistan: Obama's Vietnam?
- Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats" - video report by Democracy Now!
- A Response to Gwynne Dyer, "Ethiopia: Population, Famine and Fate, 1 September 2009"
- In Conversation: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman, The Brooklyn Rail
- Works by Gwynne Dyer at Internet Archive
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Alumni of King's College London
- Canadian military historians
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Canadian columnists
- Canadian expatriates in England
- Canadian political writers
- Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Rice University alumni
- Journalists from Newfoundland and Labrador
- Canadian expatriate writers