David Forrest (pseudonym)

David Forrest is the pseudonym of the English writer David Eliades and Robert Forrest - Webb.

Eliades and Forrest - Webb wrote and published together four satirical books. They skillfully satirized a serious subject - for example, the cold war And my nephew Albert I leave the island I took off Fatty Hagan in a poker game - and this themed satirical exaggeration in an incredible story; packaged in typical English humor.

Adaptations

The success of Forrest - Webb and Eliades you can also see to it that in 1974, two years after the first edition of "After me, the deluge ", the Italian writer Pietro Garinei ( 1919-2006 ) and Sandro Giovannini ( 1915 to 1977 ) of this work dramatized. Under the title " Aggiungi un posto a tavola " they brought this rock comedy in Italy on the stage. In the English translation "Beyond the rainbow" ( in collaboration with Forrest - Webb and Eliades ) had the play in the English-speaking world success.

The novel "The great dinosaur robbery" filmed the director Robert Stevenson in 1975 under the title Who has stolen our dinosaur? ( One of our dinosaurs is missing ), among others, with Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo and Peter Ustinov.

Works

• After me, the deluge. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1972, ISBN 0-340-14757-1.
• And my nephew Albert I leave the island I Fatty Hagan in a poker game decreased ( " And to my nephew Albert I leave the Iceland what I won off Fatty Hagan in a poker game" ). Heyne, Munich, 1987, ISBN 3-453-00303-9.
• The super thing with the skeleton ( "The great dinosaur robbery" ). Heyne, München 1995, ISBN 3-453-02893-7.
• The undertaker 's dozen. Universal - Tandem, London 1974, ISBN 0-426-14218-7.