Clive Barry
 Clive Stephen Barry (2 September 1922 - 25 August 2003) was an Australian novelist and inaugural winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize described by the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature as a vivid stylist with a capacity for dry humour.At only sixteen years of age Barry served in World War II – falsifying his date of birth in order to enlist. He was mentioned in despatches and went missing in action before he was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald to be a POW in Italy.