Malla Nunn
Malla Nunn | |
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Born | Swaziland |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 2008– |
Malla Nunn is a screenwriter and author, who was born in Swaziland.[1] Her works include the murder mystery, A Beautiful Place to Die, and Let the Dead Lie.[2]
Private life
Nunn was born in Swaziland and moved to Perth with her parents in the 1970s. She attended the University of Western Australia graduating with a B.A. with a double major in English and History. She completed a M.A. in Theatre Studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia.[3] While in America she met her husband-to-be and they live with their two children in Sydney.[4]
Career
Nunn wrote and directed several short film including the documentary Servant of the Ancestors in 1998 which screened at several festivals.[5] It won Best Documentary Silver Images, Pan African, Zanzibar Film Festival, 2000.[6] Her first book A Beautiful Place to Die was published in 2008. Set in South Africa in the beginning of the apartheid era in South Africa it featured Detective Emmanuel Cooper.[7] This was the beginning of the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series.
Bibliography
- A Beautiful Place to Die (2008) – Book 1 Detective Emmanuel Cooper series
- Let the Dead Lie (2010) – Book 2 Detective Emmanuel Cooper series
- Silent Valley (2012) also known as Blessed are the Dead - Book 3 Detective Emmanuel Cooper series
- Present Darkness (2014) – Book 4 Detective Emmanuel Cooper series
- Contributor to If I Tell You... I'll Have to Kill You (Michael Robotham editor) (2013)
- When the Ground Is Hard (2019) – for young adults
Awards
- 2009 Winner Davitt Award – Best Adult Novel – A Beautiful Place to Die[3]
- 2011 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing – Best Novel – Let the Dead Lie
- Highly Commended – Ellis Peters Historical Crime Awards – Let the Dead Lie[1]
- 2013 shortlisted Davitt Award – Best Adult Crime Novel – Silent Valley[8]
- 2013 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing – Best Fiction – Silent Valley
- 2013 nominated Edgar Allan Poe Awards – Best Paperback Original – Blessed are the Dead (aka Silent Valley)[9]
- 2015 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards – Best Adult Crime Novel – Present Darkness[10]
- 2015 shortlisted Davitt Award – Adult Fiction – Present Darkness[11]
- 2019 winner LA Times Book Prize – Young Adult – When the Ground Is Hard[12]
- 2020 shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers – When the Ground Is Hard[13]
- 2020 shortlisted Davitt Award – Best Young Adult crime novel[14]
References
- ^ a b "About Malla Nunn". Panmacmillan. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
- ^ Malla Nunn. "Malla Nunn Simon & Schuster Page". Authors.simonandschuster.com. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ a b "Malla Nunn comes to town 13 September 2013". The Inverell Times. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Malla Nunn Biography". Book Browse. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Servant of the Ancestors 1998". Screen Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "art + soul Jo-anne McGowan Producer". ABC. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "A Beautiful Place to Die An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Shortlist for the 2013 Davitt Awards". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Mystery Writers of America 2013 Awards" (PDF). The Edgars [Mystery Writers of America]. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Announcing the 2015 Ned Kelly Awards Shortlist". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "Keeping up with the 2015 Davitt Awards – Adult Fiction". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ "'When the Ground is Hard' wins LA Times Book Prize for YA". Books+Publishing. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
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