Malla Nunn

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Malla Nunn
Born Swaziland
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active2008–

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.

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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.

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  1. 1 2 "About Malla Nunn". Panmacmillan. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Malla Nunn. "Malla Nunn Simon & Schuster Page". Authors.simonandschuster.com. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Malla Nunn comes to town 13 September 2013". The Inverell Times. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Malla Nunn Biography". Book Browse. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "Servant of the Ancestors 1998". Screen Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "art + soul Jo-anne McGowan Producer". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "A Beautiful Place to Die An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Shortlist for the 2013 Davitt Awards". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Mystery Writers of America 2013 Awards" (PDF). The Edgars [Mystery Writers of America]. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Announcing the 2015 Ned Kelly Awards Shortlist". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "Keeping up with the 2015 Davitt Awards – Adult Fiction". Aust Crime Fiction. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  12. ↑ "'When the Ground is Hard' wins LA Times Book Prize for YA". Books+Publishing. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ↑ Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  14. ↑ "Best Children's Books of the Year Archive". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  15. ↑ "CBCA Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ↑ "Davitt Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 17 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ "CBCA 2022 Book of the Year shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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