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10 unusual facts about Frederick Forsyth


Afghan Scene

Afghan Scene attracts a diverse group of guest writers from renowned journalist Ahmad Rashid to writers like Frederick Forsyth.

Al J Venter

Venter has reported on a number of wars in Africa, starting with the Nigerian Civil War in 1965, where he spent time covering the conflict with colleague Frederick Forsyth, who was working in Biafra for the BBC at the time.

And Then We Moved to Rossenara

A number of British writers such as Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, and Leslie Charteris, as well as the Americans J. P. Donleavy and Anne McCaffrey, immediately took up residence; Condon asserts, however, that despite moving to Rossenarra about the same time, his own finances and citizenship were such that he never benefitted from living in this tax-free haven.

Islam and animals

Both terms were used in context and explained by author Frederick Forsyth in his novel The Fist of God.

Joaquín Soler Serrano

He subsequently hosted many other programs, finally becoming presenter of the interview program A fondo (1976–1981), in which he had the opportunity to interview Salvador Dalí, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Camilo José Cela, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frederick Forsyth, Elia Kazan, Antonio Gala, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Francisco Umbral, Julio Iglesias and Silvio Fanti among others.

No Comebacks

No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by Frederick Forsyth.

Novocherkassk massacre

During a politburo scene in The Devil's Alternative by author Frederick Forsyth, the KGB chief, asked if he could suppress riots during famine, responds that the KGB could suppress ten, even twenty Novocherkassk's; but not fifty - intentionally using the example to highlight how serious the difficulties would be that the Soviet Union finds itself in the novel.

ODESSA

In the realm of fiction, the Frederick Forsyth best-selling 1972 thriller The Odessa File brought the organization to popular attention.

Oleg Gordievsky

The character of Nikolai Gorodov, a highly placed KGB defector in Frederick Forsyth's The Deceiver, appears to be partly based on Oleg Gordievsky"The Price of the Bride".

Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks is featured as a minor character in the novel The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth.


Alan Maitland

Some "Fireside Al" segments continue to air on the program to this day, particularly his Christmas Eve readings of stories by Frederick Forsyth, notably The Shepherd, and O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.

Eastside Educational Trust

Eastside Educational Trust's celebrity patrons include but are not limited to: Denys Baptiste, Quentin Blake, Samantha Bond, Patti Boulaye, Katie Derham, Jenny Eclair, Frederick Forsyth, Henry Goodman, Richard E Grant, David Harewood, Anish Kapoor, Martha Kearney, Soweto Kinch, Mark Lawson, Adrian Lester, Sharman Macdonald, Curtis Walker, Zoë Wanamaker, Sir Arnold Wesker, Samuel West and Gary Wilmot.

Mammon in popular culture

Mammon is a character in The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth, where he is the god that the Phantom of the Opera worships.