Martyn Burke Biography

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Martyn Burke (born 1947) is a journalist, screenwriter and novelist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His career got started when he began writing and directing documentaries for CBC Television. Burke was also a photographer and war correspondent during the Vietnam War, which is what his first novel, The Laughing War, is based. His second novel, The Commissar's Report, is a story that occurs during the Cold War, and portrays the relationship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. He has also writen screenplays for CBC Television including Connections, State of Shock, and The Last Chase.

Burke has also directed a number of theatrical films, including The Clown Murders, Power Play and Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Bibliography

Laughing War, 1980

The Commissar's Report, 1984

Ivory Joe, 1991

Tiara: A Novel, 1995

External Links

• 1984 audio interview with Martyn Burke by Don Swaim
  

• Author site
  

• HarperCollins Canada site
  

• Author videointerview about The Truth About the Night
  

• Video trailer for The Truth About the Night
  

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