13 Facts About Edward Duyker

Edward Duyker was born on 21 March 1955 and is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne.

Edward Duyker was born to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius.

Edward Duyker's mother has ancestors from Cornwall who emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1849, and he is related to the Australian landscape painter Lloyd Rees.

Edward Duyker is related to the French painter Felix Lionnet.

Edward Duyker attended St Joseph's School, Malvern, Victoria, and completed his secondary studies at De La Salle College, Malvern.

Edward Duyker left in July 1983 to take up a position as a Teaching Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, but ultimately settled in Sydney as a full-time author in 1984.

In 2007 Edward Duyker published A Dictionary of Sea Quotations with a deeply personal introduction on his family's links with the sea.

Edward Duyker makes a point of visiting the places he writes about and orienting explorers' maps and journals to a modern landscape or coast.

Thomas Nossiter of the London School of Economics praised Edward Duyker's Tribal Guerrillas because "it exemplifies the value of synthesising anthropology and history; and, more generally, it is a scholarly contribution to a literature on tribal rebellion and insurgency far wider than India, which embraces Greece, Vietnam and Algeria as well as sub-Saharan Africa where tribal responses to imperialism and modernisation have been significant".

Edward Duyker edited A Woman on the Goldfields, dealing with the life of Emily Skinner on the nineteenth-century Victorian gold fields.

Between 2001 and 2022, Edward Duyker was an honorary senior lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney.

In 2007, Edward Duyker was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Edward Duyker is a member of the International Council of Museums and a life member of the Sutherland Shire Historical Society.