Malcolm Knox (author)

Not to be confused with philosopher and academic Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900–1980).

Malcolm Knox
Born	1966 (age 58–59)
Occupation	Journalist, author, novelist
Nationality	Australian
Genre	Literature, non-fiction, essay

Malcolm Knox (born 1966), is an Australian journalist and author.

Life and literary career

Malcolm Knox grew up in Sydney and studied in Sydney and Scotland. He has held a number of positions at Sydney Morning Herald including chief cricket correspondent (1996–99), assistant sport editor (1999–2000) and literary editor (2002–06). ^[1] As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri, which won him a Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington). ^[2]

Malcolm has served as a Board Director of the Copyright Agency (2008–2016) and a Board Director of the Chappell Foundation (2017–2021), acting as honorary secretary from 2019–2021. He is currently a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors. ^[3]

Between 1989 and 1993 he did not watch any movies or listen to any music.

Bibliography

Novels

• Summerland. 2000.
• A Private Man (2004) (released in the UK as Adult Book (2005))
• Jamaica (2007)
• The Life (2011)
• The Wonder Lover (2015)
• Bluebird (2020)
• The First Friend (2024)

Non-fiction

• Taylor And Beyond (2000)
• I Still Call Australia Home: The Qantas Story 1920–2005 (2005)
• 1788 Words or Less: A short short history of Australia (2005)
• Secrets of the Jury Room (2006)
• Scattered: The Inside Story of Ice in Australia (2008)
• On Obsession (2008)
• The Greatest: The players, the moments, the matches 1993–2008 (2009)
• The Captains: The story behind Australia's second most important job (2010)
• Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell (2011)
• Bradman's War: How the 1948 invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield (2012)
• Never a Gentlemen's Game (2012)
• Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Goldrush to GFC (2013)
• "Duopoly money : Coles, Woolworths and the price we pay for their domination". The Monthly. 103: 20–31. August 2014. ^[4]
• Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles' and Woolworths' Dominance (2015)
• The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket (2015)
• Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography (co-authored with Peter Lalor) (2015)

Critical studies and reviews of Knox's work

The life

• Rivett, Adam (June 2011). "Green cathedrals". Australian Book Review (332): 62.

Awards and nominations

• Named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian novelists (2001) ^[5]
• A Private Man , was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Tasmanian Premier's Award. ^[6]
• Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington) for the exposé of fraudulent author Norma Khouri (author of Forbidden Love ). ^[7]
• He was runner up for Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award 2004. ^[8]
• Winner of a Ned Kelly Award (2005) Best First Fiction for A Private Man ^[9]
• Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo prize for research ^[10]
• Walkley Award (2007) for Magazine Feature Writing for essay 'Cruising: Life and Death on the High Seas' was published in the September 2006 issue of The Monthly. ^[11]
• Winner of the Colin Roderick Award (2008) for Jamaica (best book published in Australia in the preceding year dealing with an aspect of Australian life) ^[12]
• Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize (2014) for Boom
• Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2025) for The First Friend ^[13]

References

1. "Malcolm Knox: Board of Directors Profile". Copyright Agency Limited. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
2. "Walkley for expose of literary hoax as Herald writers shine at awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 December 2004. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
3. "Who We Are".
4. Online version is titled "Supermarket monsters".
5. "Author Profile: Malcolm Knox". Australian Literary Management. Archived from the original on 28 October 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
6. "Malcolm Knox Profile". Random House. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
7. "Previous Winners Database: Malcolm Knox". Walkley Awards. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
8. "Media Release: Graham Perkin Award". The Age. 18 March 2005. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
9. "Previous Winners". Ned Kelly Awards. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
10. "Malcolm Knox Profile". Griffith Review . Retrieved 12 February 2012.
11. "Award Winners". The Monthly. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
12. "Colin Roderick Award". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
13. "Knox longlisted for 2025 Walter Scott Prize". Books+Publishing. 19 February 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2025.

External links

• Malcolm Knox at Allen & Unwin
• Malcolm Knox at Random House