Mark Dapin | |
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Born | 1963 United Kingdom |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of New South Wales (PhD) University of Warwick (BA [Hons]) University of Technology Sydney (MA) Griffith University Queensland (BGS)Contents |
Thesis | Myth Making and Memory: Australia, the Vietnam War and National Service (2018) |
Doctoral advisor | Jeffrey Grey |
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Notable works | Australia's Vietnam:Myth vs History (2019) |
Website | http://markdapin.com |
Mark Dapin (born 1963) is an Australian journalist,author,historian and screenwriter. He is best known for his long-running column in Good Weekend magazine.
Mark Dapin was born in Britain and immigrated to Australia in 1989.
Dapin was the founding chief sub-editor of the Australian Financial Review Magazine in 1995. [1] From 1998 to 2002,he was editor and then editor-in-chief of Ralph magazine. He has written for a variety of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald ,The Guardian,The Times,Penthouse and Good Weekend. He has a Bachelor of Social Science degree and a Masters in Journalism from UTS and has taught journalism courses at the University of Sydney and Macleay College.
In 2008,Dapin was thrown out of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s home when he was only minutes into a profile interview for Good Weekend magazine. The incident –and subsequent attempts by Ramsay’s publicists to control the story –formed the basis of Dapin’s feature ‘Nightmare on Ramsay Street’ [2] and a later essay for the literary magazine Meanjin. [3] Dapin’s work on Ramsay was examined in two essays in The Profiling Handbook: [4] "What's the Point of a Profile? The Curious Cases of Mark Dapin on Gordon Ramsay and Jack Marx on Russell Crowe" by Fiona Giles,and "Double Vision:Profile of a Profile" by Gillian Rennie. Rennie,a lecturer at Rhodes University,South Africa,uses Dapin’s thoughts on the Ramsay interview as a prism for her own reflections on her famous profile of Epainette Mbeki. Giles,a professor at Sydney University,examines Dapin's work alongside that of his contemporary,Jack Marx. She writes:"both journalists are well-known,mid-career writers bringing a gonzo,rock 'n' roll sensibility to their work. Well-versed in the post-New Journalism style,they include themselves in their stories,and are entertainingly provocative. They enjoy a high status in Australia as award-winning writers,are known to court controversy,and have been sacked from Australia’s second largest print empire,Fairfax Media –occasions which attracted media coverage. They are both authors of book-length literary journalism in addition to feature-length profiles,and are admired for being independent thinkers with a quick wit." [4]
Dapin’s departure in 2012 from Fairfax Media (to which he subsequently returned as a contributor) and the loss of his Good Weekend column,were reported extensively in the Australian press. In recent years,he has become more prominent as a novelist and historian. In July 2014 he was commissioned by the Centenary of Anzac Jewish Program to write a military history book Jewish Anzacs,published by the Sydney Jewish Museum. [5] In July 2017 he was named as one of the screenwriters on the second season of TV show Wolf Creek [6] –he is credited on two episodes of the show. [7]
In 2019,he presented Myths of War on ABC radio.
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