Duncan Watt
Duncan Watt was an author and a newscaster and radio presenter. A household name in the 80s and 90s, Watt read the primetime news on Channel 5 for the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation from 1980 to 1998 as well as presented classical music on Symphony 92.4FM for about 24 years until 2004. He was also known for his 20-book Wallace Boys series for teenagers about the adventures of brothers Nigel and Bruce Wallace in far-flung places such as Kariba, Zimbabwe, the Skeleton Coast and the Scottish Highlands.Biography
The only child of British parents, Watt was born near Victoria Falls, then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. He travelled to more than 80 countries around the world before falling in love with and settled in Singapore in 1976, after his first visit as a backpacker in 1969.
Watt was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2016. He died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 74.Published works
- 1995: Skulduggery in the South Atlantic
- 1993: Sands of the Skeleton Coast
- 1991: Trouble in Tristan
- 1996: Legacy of Lobengula
- 1992: Killers against Kariba
- 1991: Kidnapped in the Kafue
- 1993: Crash in the Caprivi
- 2010: Mischief in “The Mousetrap”
- 1995: Hostage in the Highlands
- 2010: Assignment in the Alps
- 2010: Traitors in the Tyrol
- 2000: Rebels Across the Red Sea
- 2000: Rebels Across the Red Sea II: Nemesis of the Nefud
- 2001: Rebels Across the Red Sea III: The Terrorists of Tibesti
- 2010: The Monks of Montafon
- 2010: South from the Seychelles
- 1994: Treasure of the Tiger
- 1997: Sultan of the Sulu Sea
- 2000: Missing in the Mekong
- 1996: Pagodas of Pahang
Other works
- 1970: Caprivi crash
- 1970: Kafue killers
- 1974: Hijacked in Borneo
- 1976: Hijacked in Kalimantan
