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Robert Wales (International) assertion Robert Wales i(A12178 works by)
Born: Established:
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1949 Departed from Australia: 1966
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BiographyHistory

Robert Wales was born and educated in Scotland. He had emigrated to Australia by the 1950s and worked as a cattle-grazier and gold prospector before writing plays such as The Hobby Horse, The Grotto and The Cell. He returned to Great Britain in 1966 to work as a screenwriter contributing to television dramas such as The Sweeney, Van de Valk and the American TV series In Search of Alexander the Great. Harry, his first novel, was adapted for film as Bullseye in 1987.

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Notes

  • Robert Wales may also be the author of The Navigator (1989), but this novel has no Australian setting or characters.
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