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Dan Davin

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Anthology
Classic New Zealand Short Stories. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. Voyager link
New Zealand Herald (1997): G: 6-G: 6.
Press (1997): Sup: 16-Sup: 16.
Critical Essays on the New Zealand Short Story. Auckland: Heinemann, 1982. Voyager link
Heinemann International, Auckland, Listener 1970.86 (1977): 68-69.
Heinemann International, Auckland, World Literature Written in English 2.16 (1977): 89-91.
English Short Stories of Today. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Voyager link
Katherine Mansfield : Selected Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. Voyager link
Landfall 8 Sept (1954): 214-221.
New Zealand Short Stories One. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Voyager link
Landfall 8 Mar (1954): 22-26.
Landfall 8 Sept (1954): 216-221.
Short Stories from the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Voyager link
Spectator 250 (1983): 22-22.
British Book News Jan (1983): 54-54.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1983): 1243-1243.
The Killing Bottle : Classic English Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Voyager link
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4441 (1988): 527-527.
The Salamander and the Fire : Collected War Stories. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986. Voyager link
Metro 6.68 Feb (1987): 154-155.
Listener 115.2459 (1987): 59-59.
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Biography
Intimate stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin. Wellington, Steele Roberts 2000. Voyager link
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Criticism
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) July (1963).
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1963).
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1965).
Observer 5 Nov (1972).
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 3828 (1975): 820.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1975).
Here and Now 2.1 Nov (1994): 29-30.
Introduction to English Literature. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1947. Voyager link
Education 1 April (1948): 102-103.
Education 1 April (1948): 102-103.
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Essay
"Editor and author in a University Press." Scholarly Publishing : a Journal for Authors and Publishers 10 (1979): 121-127.
"Five windows darken : recollections of Joyce Carey." Encounter 44 June (1975): 24-33.
"In a green cave : recollections of Louis MacNeice." Encounter 39 Aug (1972): 42-49.
Maurice Duggans Summer in the Gravel Pit. In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Short Story. Auckland, Heinemann 1982: 150-165.
The learned adviser. In: Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1981.
The narrative technique of Frank Sargeson. In: The Puritan and the Waif : a Symposium of Critical Essays on the Work of Frank Sargeson.. Auckland, Hoffmann 1955.
"The New Zealand novel." Royal Society of Arts Journal 110 July (1962): 586-598.
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Memoir
Introductory memoir in Collected Poems, by W.R. Rodgers. London, Oxford University Press 1971.
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Non Fiction
Crete. Wellington: War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1953. Voyager link
Landfall 30 June (1954): 138-141.
Jane Mander. In The New Zealand Novel. Wellington: School Publications Branch, Dept of Education, 1956. Voyager link
The New Zealand novel. Wellington: School Publications Branch, Dept of Education, 1956. Voyager link
The Sullen Bell. London: Michael Joseph, 1956. Voyager link
Listener 35.892 (1956): 14-14.
Landfall 10 Sept (1956): 253-255.
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Novel
Breathing Spaces. London: Hale, 1975. Voyager link
New Statesman 90 (1975): 448-448.
Listener London 95 (1976): 30-30.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1975): 1255-1255.
NZ Bookworld (1976): 28-28.
Listener 84.1928 (1976): 76-76.
Brides of Price. London: R. Hale, 1972. Voyager link
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1972): 1041-1041.
Listener London 88 (1972): 418-418.
Publishers Weekly 202 (1972): 34-34.
Library Journal 97 (1972): 4002-4002.
Listener 72.1741 (1973): 49-49.
Cliffs of Fall. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1945. Voyager link
Listener 13.327 (1945): 14-15.
Closing Times. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Voyager link
London Magazine 15.3 (1975): 104-107.
Observer (1975): 26-26.
Guardian Weekly 112 (1975): 22-22.
New Statesman 89 (1975): 757-757.
Economist 256 (1975): 106-106.
New Yorker 51 (1975): 88-88.
Commonwealth 102 (1975): 505-505.
South Atlantic Quarterly 75 Summer (1976): 392-392.
Western Humanities Review 30 Summer (1976): 253-253.
Sewanee Review 84 Winter (1976): R18-R18.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1975): 752-752.
Listener 82.1902 (1976): 52-53.
New Quarterly Cave 2 (1977): 288-289.
Listener 112.2409 (1986): 47-47.
For the Rest of Our Lives. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1947. Voyager link
Landfall 1 Dec (1947): 325-328.
Listener (1966): 20-20.
Landfall 20 Dec (1966): 398-398.
"Notes." Landfall 10 June (1949): 99-104.
Listener 17.429 (1947): 10-11.
No Remittance. London: Joseph, 1959. Voyager link
Landfall 13 June (1959): 180-181.
Listener 40.1020 (1959).
Not Here, Not Now. London: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1970. Voyager link
Landfall 24 Sept (1970): 296-302.
Listener 65.1618 (1970): 21-21.
Roads from Home. London: Joseph, 1949. Voyager link
Listener 21.520 (1949): 17-18.
Landfall 3 Sept (1949): 290-292.
Here and Now 1.1 (1949).
Education 2.5 Nov (1949): 63-66.
NZ Bookworld 33 Feb (1977): 19-20.
NZPPTA Journal May (1977): 35-36.
Pilgrims 2.2 June (1977): 111-111.
"Comments on the year's fiction." Arts Year book 6 (1950): 145-148.
The Gorse Blooms Pale. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1947. Voyager link
Listener 18.344 (1948): 20-20.
Landfall 2 June (1948): 148-151.
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Poetry
"Winter Galway." Landfall 37 Mar (1956): 11-11.
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Review
Landfall 2 Mar (1948): 50-55.
Listener 98.2173 (1981): 100-101.
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Short Story
"Black diamond." Islands 3.1 Aug (1986): 42-48.
"Bluff retrospect." Landfall 82 June (1967): 163-167.
"Casino casualty." Islands 1.2 Nov (1984): 105-118.
"First flight." Landfall 89 Mar (1969): 12-33.
"Gardens of exile." Listener 123.2548 (1989): 34-37.
"Gooseys Gallic war." Landfall 88 Dec (1968): 387-396.
"Presents." Landfall 25 Mar (1953): 19-25.
"The black stranger." Listener 118.2480 (1987): 44, 50-47, 51.
"The quiet one." Landfall 11 Sept (1949): 228-240.
"Three encounters thirty years ago." Islands 6.3 Mar (1978): 302-306.
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Short Story Collection
Essential New Zealand short stories. Auckland, Random House 2009.
Out of town: writing from the New Zealand countryside. Christchurch, Shoal Bay Press 1999. Voyager link
Selected Stories. Wellington, Victoria University Press 1981. Voyager link
Spectator 246 (1981): 26-26.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1981): 660-660.
Listener London (1981): 106-106.
Listener 98.2164 (1981): 84-84.
Landfall 36 Mar (1982): 93-99.
Comment 15 April (1982): 34-35.
Short Stories by New Zealanders : Frank Sargeson, Dan Davin, A.P. Gaskell, Maurice Duggan. Auckland, Longman Paul 1970.
 

Works about:

Article
Bertram, James. "Dan Davin : novelist of exile." Meanjin 32 June (1973): 148-156.
Hankin, Cherry. "Dan Davins Roads from Home. In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Novel." Heinemann International, Auckland, 1976.
Collins, N. "Parted by a letter." NZ Coal 32 Jan (1977): 15-15.
King, Michael. "Home thoughts from abroad." Listener 90.2025 (1978): 22-23.
McLauchlan, Gordon. "Star talker." Listener 107.2134 (1984): 82-83.
Johnston, Andrew. "Dan Davin disclosed." Evening Post (1996): 10-10.
Bartel, Susan. "National Library Fellow 1999 : James McNeish." Off the Record 6 (1999): 4-4.
Fallow, Michael. "Dan the man : a supportive Kiwi found in Oxford." Southland Times (2001): 29-29.
Fallow, Michael. "Dan Davin - the uncollected works." Southland Times (2003): 26-26.
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Biography
Bertram, James. "Dan Davin." Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1983.
Ovenden, Keith. "A Fighting Withdrawal : the Life of Dan Davin, writer, soldier, publisher." Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
Arthur, Dave. "Intimate stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin." Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2000.
Jones, L. "The wrong bus : the sons of Sargeson : Dan Davin and the search for the great New Zealand novel, 1943-1956." University of Waikato, Hamilton, 2005.
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Criticism
Macaskill, Patrick. "Comments on the year's fiction." Arts Year book 6 (1950): 145-148.
Jones, Lawrence. "The persistence of realism : Dan Davin, Noel Hilliard and recent New Zealand short stories." Islands 6.2 Dec (1977): 182-200.
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Essay
Brasch, Charles. "Notes." Landfall 10 June (1949): 99-104.
Hankin, Cherry. "The fictive picture: Cole, Courage, Davin. In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Short Story." Heinemann, Auckland, 1982.
Hankin, Cherry. "The fictive picture: Cole, Courage, Davin. In: Critical Essays on the New ZealandShort Story." Heinemann International, Auckland, 1982.
Roth, Margot. "Anna Davin : history research is a political act." Womens Studies Journal 2.2 Aug (1986): 14-24.
Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. "A bourgeois blue? Nationalism and letters from the 1920s to the 1950s." Landfall 41.3 Sept (1987): 293-311.
Carter, Ian. "Death from a (formerly) tenured position." Antic 2 Mar (1987): 86-96.
Cowley, Joy. "The way of paradox. In Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin." Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2000.
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Interview
"Roads back home : a conversation with Dan Davin." Listener 40.1023 (1959): 6-7.
"Eye of the expatriate." Listener 1561 (1969): 10-10.
Whitehouse, Steve. "In search of Dan Davin. Steve Whitehouse talks to Keith Ovenden about his biography." Quote Unquote 14 Aug (1994): 24-25.
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Memoir
Arthur, Dave. "Dan Davin : a sombre beast?." Bete Noir 14/15 (1990): 323-333.
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Non Fiction
Wilson, Janet. "Intimate Stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin." Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2001.
McNeish, James. "Dance of the Peacocks : New Zealanders in Exile at the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse Tung." Random House, Auckland, 2003.
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Obituary
Samson, Alan. "Oxford pub mourns Kiwi authors death." Dominion Sunday Times (1990): 1-1.
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Profile
Sharp, Iain. "Desperate Dan." Sunday Star Times (2001): F: 2-F: 2.
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Review
McCormick, E.H. Listener 13.327 (1945): 14-15.
Kippenberger, H. Listener 17.429 (1947): 10-11.
Baigent, L. Landfall 1 Dec (1947): 325-328.
Listener 18.344 (1948): 20-20.
Education 1 April (1948): 102-103.
Cole, Janet. Landfall 2 June (1948): 148-151.
Shaw, Helen. Here and Now 1.1 (1949).
Monro, D.H. Landfall 3 Sept (1949): 290-292.
McCormick, E.H. Education 2.5 Nov (1949): 63-66.
Sargeson, Frank. Listener 21.520 (1949): 17-18.
Sargeson, Frank. Landfall 8 Mar (1954): 22-26.
Rutherford, J. Landfall 30 June (1954): 138-141.
Rhodes, H. Winston. Landfall 8 Sept (1954): 216-221.
Rhodes, H. Winston. Landfall 8 Sept (1954): 214-221.
Copland, R.A. Landfall 10 Sept (1956): 253-255.
Hall, D. Listener 35.892 (1956): 14-14.
Hall, D. Listener 40.1020 (1959).
O'Dowd, B.M. Landfall 13 June (1959): 180-181.
Gurr, A.J. Landfall 20 Dec (1966): 398-398.
Hall, D. Listener (1966): 20-20.
Wilson, Phillip. Listener 65.1618 (1970): 21-21.
Beveridge, Michael. Landfall 24 Sept (1970): 296-302.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1972): 1041-1041.
Listener London 88 (1972): 418-418.
Publishers Weekly 202 (1972): 34-34.
Library Journal 97 (1972): 4002-4002.
Glover, Denis. Listener 72.1741 (1973): 49-49.
Campbell, Philippa. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1975): 1255-1255.
Symons, Julian. London Magazine 15.3 (1975): 104-107.
New Statesman 90 (1975): 448-448.
Observer (1975): 26-26.
Guardian Weekly 112 (1975): 22-22.
New Statesman 89 (1975): 757-757.
Economist 256 (1975): 106-106.
New Yorker 51 (1975): 88-88.
Commonwealth 102 (1975): 505-505.
Amery, Mark. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1975): 752-752.
South Atlantic Quarterly 75 Summer (1976): 392-392.
Western Humanities Review 30 Summer (1976): 253-253.
Sewanee Review 84 Winter (1976): R18-R18.
Listener London 95 (1976): 30-30.
Roddick, A. Listener 84.1928 (1976): 76-76.
Schur, M. NZ Bookworld (1976): 28-28.
Kidman, Fiona. Listener 82.1902 (1976): 52-53.
Wevers, Lydia. NZ Bookworld 33 Feb (1977): 19-20.
Fairburn, G. NZPPTA Journal May (1977): 35-36.
Fairburn, G. New Quarterly Cave 2 (1977): 288-289.
Morris, I. Pilgrims 2.2 June (1977): 111-111.
Bertram, James. Listener 98.2164 (1981): 84-84.
Spectator 246 (1981): 26-26.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1981): 660-660.
Listener London (1981): 106-106.
Jones, L. Landfall 36 Mar (1982): 93-99.
Poole, R. Comment 15 April (1982): 34-35.
Jones, L. Oxford University Press, Auckland, Landfall 37 Dec (1983): 486-489.
Spectator 250 (1983): 22-22.
British Book News Jan (1983): 54-54.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1983): 1243-1243.
Day, Paul W. Oxford University Press, Auckland, Listener 105.2280 (1983): 96-96.
Broughton, W. S. Oxford University Press, Auckland, Reviews Journal 2 Dec (1984): 38-40.
Williams, Mark. Listener 112.2409 (1986): 47-47.
King, Michael. Metro 6.68 Feb (1987): 154-155.
Day, Paul W. Listener 115.2459 (1987): 59-59.
Byatt, A.S. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4441 (1988): 527-527.
Somerville, Jack. Otago Daily Times (1996): 22-22.
Jones, L. Evening Post (1996): 5-5.
Renwick, B. Dominion (1996): 18-18.
McNeish, James. Quote Unquote 38 Aug (1996): 30-30.
O'Sullivan, Vincent. New Zealand Books 6.4 Oct (1996): 11-12.
Quigley, Sarah. Press (1996): Sup: 10-Sup: 10.
Hamilton, Ian. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4891 (1996): 24-24.
Richards, Ian. Listener (1996): 46-47.
Sharp, Iain. Sunday Star Times (1996): E: 4-E: 4.
King, Michael. Metro 183 Sept (1996): 117-120.
McLauchlan, Gordon. New Zealand Herald (1997): G: 6-G: 6.
Williams, Bridget. Landfall 193 Autumn (1997): 154-156.
Quigley, Sarah. Press (1997): Sup: 16-Sup: 16.
Bracefield, Helen. British Review of New Zealand Studies 10 Dec (1997): 134-135.
Richards, Ian. "Reading New Zealand Writing: reviews, 1990-2001." Lonely Arts Pub., Wellington, 2001.
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Short Story Collection
Edmond, Lauris. "Essential New Zealand short stories." Random House, Auckland, 2009.
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