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Roland John Perry OAM (born 11 October 1946) is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His ''Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War'', won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art.'〔Fellowship of Australian Writers, 2004, (FAW National Literary Awards 2004 ), accessed 16 July 2009〕 In the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.'〔(It's an Honour ). Retrieved 27 October 2014〕 In October 2011, Monash University awarded Perry a Fellowship for 'high achievement as a writer, author, film producer and journalist.'〔Monash University, 2011 (), accessed 12 October 2011〕 His sports books include biographies of Sir Donald Bradman, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller and Shane Warne. Perry has written on espionage, specialising in the British Cambridge Five ring of Russian agents. He has also published three works of fiction and produced more than 20 documentary films. Perry has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council since 2006.〔National Archives of Australia, 2011 (), accessed 18 July 2011〕In late 2012 Perry accepted an adjunct appointment at Monash University as a Professor, with the title ‘Writer-in-Residence’ in the University’s Arts Faculty.〔Monash University, National Centre for Australian Studies, School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts, 2012〕 ==Career== Roland Perry at age 22, began his writing career on ''The Age'' from January 1969 to June 1973. In that time he finished an Economics Degree at Monash University while also studying the subjects 'Law Affecting Journalism', and 'Journalism' at Melbourne University. He won the Exhibition Prize in Journalism at Melbourne in 1969, and was awarded the Frederick Blackham Scholarship Award. Perry told ABC Radio's 'Australia Overnights' program on 16 August 2008 that he was 'fortunate to have strong mentors at the beginning of my career. I was hired by the legendary editor Graham Perkin. My first editor was Les Carlyon (went on to write ''Gallipoli'' ), who was an early influence. Carlyon was always over-worked but managed to find time for advice if requested, and that was valuable early (the career ).' Perry said he also had luck when tackling his 'secondary career' as a film script-writer in London where he lived and worked for 12 years from mid-1973. 'I wanted to broaden my writing skills,' he told 'Overnights' host Trevor Chappell, 'and applied everywhere for a job. I landed a position as the International Wool Secretariat's film's officer (London ). This led to me working as a producer, script-writer and on-camera interviewer with some exceptional feature and documentary writers, including Tony Maylam and Jack Grossman.' Grossman was involved with 'Arts for Labour' (the UK Labour Party) under Neil Kinnock in his bid to unseat Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister. Grossman was commissioned to make Labour's television political broadcasts (party commercials). He finished forever the tedious use of 'talking heads' bringing in Perry to write and help produce a controversial 10 minute party advertisement refuting Thatcher's claim that she had primary control of all nuclear weapons on UK soil. The sensational clip suggested that the US President still maintained his 'finger on the button' concerning US Cruise Missiles based in the UK and aimed at the (then) Soviet Union. According to UK ''Time Out Magazine'' of 23 September 1981, Thatcher was forced to defend her claims (unconvincingly) in a hostile Parliament. In 1984, while briefly back in Australia, Perry wrote (and directed one hour of) the documentary series ''Strike Swiftly'' about Australia's reservist military force. It was broadcast on the ABC in 1985. Three years later he joined forces with the doyen director of the Australian film industry, Tim Burstall (Alvin Purple'' ) to write a TV mini-series based on Perry's biography of Wilfred Burchett, ''The Exile''. 'Unfortunately we ran into a serious bit of corruption with one of the funders and the script was never transformed into film,' Perry told Chappell, 'I recall telling () Fred Schepisi about this. He just laughed and said that sort of thing happened to him a couple of times a year. But it was enough to make me decide to write another dozen books before looking at film again. I ended up writing another 24 books before returning to film, which I am now doing, but still as a secondary interest.' Roland Perry also kept his freelance journalism going, and this peaked when he covered three US Presidential Campaigns (1976-Jimmy Carter; 1980-Ronald Reagan; 1984-Ronald Reagan). He wrote primarily for leading newspapers and magazines in the UK, including ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times''. This led to a series of political articles for ''Penthouse Magazine'' UK, and a documentary on the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 ''The Programming of the President''.〔‘The Crisis Machine’, ''Penthouse Magazine'' UK, Volume 19 No 6, June 1984. See Perry’s articles ‘Candidate Reagan’, UK ''Sunday Times'', 29 April 1984 and ‘The Man Who Monitored the World During a Crisis,’ Computing UK, 24 May 1984; ‘Caed Mile Demos’ by Paddy Prendiville, ''Sunday Tribune'', Ireland 29 April 1984; ‘The Programming of the President,’ Andrew Casey, Sydney ''Sun-Herald'', 19 August 1984; ‘Pollsters: ignore them at your peril,’ ''Business Review Weekly'', Australia 3–9 November 1984; ‘Strategists use programs to put politicians in power,’ by Bill Johnston, ''The Australian'', 27 November 1984. The one hour documentary produced by Grossman and Perry was ‘The Programming of the President,’ Program Film Productions, 1984.〕 Perry further wrote a book, ''Hidden Power: The Programming of the President'', which was published by ''Aurum Press'' in 1984 in the UK, and ''Beaufort Books'' in the US. At this time, he wrote another political book for French publishers ''Robert Laffont'' and ''Bonnel''. Despite having the dreary title ''Elections sur Ordinateur'' (Elections on Computer) it was well received in France. It covered the marketing of political candidates in Europe. In 1991, Perry was commissioned by the ''Weekend Australian Magazine'' to write a feature about an Australian syndicate attempting to raise the treasure from a sunken galleon off the coast of Guam. He returned there with a film crew to make a documentary entitled ''The Raising of a Galleon’s Ghost''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roland Perry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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