Ian Slater Ian Slater i(A43992 works by)
Born: Established: 1941 Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
Expatriate assertion Departed from Australia: 1966
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BiographyHistory

Ian Slater was educated at Toowoomba State High School, Queensland. Before moving to Canada, Slater worked for the Australian Navy, then for the Department of External Affairs as a cipher clerk, then as a defence officer with the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau. On his way to Canada he worked as a marine geology technician with the Institute of Oceanography in New Zealand, and later with the Institute of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He completed a BA, an MA and, in 1977, a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia. He has taught in the humanities at various universities.

Slater's first publication was a short story, 'A Children's Tale', published in 1966 in the Australian anthology Under Twenty-Five. He began writing professionally in his early twenties. He wrote a biography of George Orwell, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One (1985).

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