Malla Nunn

Malla Nunn
Born	Swaziland
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Education	University of Western Australia
Genre	Crime fiction Young Adult fiction
Years active	2008–present
Notable works	Emmanuel Cooper series
Notable awards	12 awards

Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter and author

Malla Nunn is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter and author.^[1] Her works include the murder mysteries A Beautiful Place to Die and Let the Dead Lie,^[2] as well as the award-winning young adult novel, When the Ground Is Hard.

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. It is the first instalment in the Emmanuel Cooper series of novels, set in South Africa in the beginning of the apartheid era.^[7]

Bibliography

Crime fiction

Emmanuel Cooper series

A Beautiful Place to Die (2008)
Let the Dead Lie (2010)
Silent Valley (2012) also known as Blessed are the Dead
Present Darkness (2014)

Other

Contributor to If I Tell You... I'll Have to Kill You (Michael Robotham editor) (2013)

Young adult fiction

When the Ground Is Hard (2019)
Sugar Town Queens (2022)

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 winner Bank Street Children's Book Committee Josette Frank Award, Best Book of the Year with "Outstanding Merit" – When the Ground Is Hard^[13]^[14]
2020 shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers – When the Ground Is Hard^[15]
2020 shortlisted Davitt Award – Best Young Adult crime novel^[16]
2022 shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers – Sugar Town Queens^[17]

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". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 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.
^ Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
^ "Best Children's Books of the Year Archive". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
^ "CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
^ "Davitt Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
^ "CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.