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- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) abstract "Derek Robinson (born 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour. He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1971 for his first novel, Goshawk Squadron.After attending Cotham Grammar School, Robinson served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter plotter, during his National Service. He has a History degree from Cambridge University, where he attended Downing College, has worked in advertising in the UK and the US and as a broadcaster on radio and television. He was a qualified rugby referee for over thirty years and is a life member of Bristol Society of Rugby Referees. He was married in 1964.Following his research of historical records for his novel Piece of Cake (1983) Robinson became convinced that it was the supremacy of the Royal Navy in the UK's coastal waters that caused Adolf Hitler to postpone invasion plans and not the Battle of Britain, as commonly claimed by the Royal Air Force.".
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- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) pseudonym "Dirk Robson".
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- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) almaMater "Downing College, University of Cambridge".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) birthDate "1932-04-12".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) birthPlace Bristol.
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- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) education "University".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) genre "fiction".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) name "Derek Robinson".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) nationality British_nationality_law.
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) notableworks "A Load of Old Bristle: Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle, Run with the Ball".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) notableworks "Goshawk Squadron, Piece of Cake, The Eldorado Network, A Darker History of Bristol".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) occupation "screenwriter, author, Rugby Union referee, broadcaster".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) period "1971".
- Derek_Robinson_(novelist) pseudonym "Dirk Robson".
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