Marele Day

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Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel [1] and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work How to Write Crime. [2]

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Biography

Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s. [1]

Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based [3] private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers; [1] it became a bestseller. [2] Lambs of God was adapted into a TV series of the same name in 2019, starring Ann Dowd and Essie Davis. [4]

She lives on the New South Wales North Coast, [3] where she is on the board of Byron Writers Festival [5] and was the mentor of their residential mentorship program from 2002-2022. [6]

Bibliography

Claudia Valentine series

Other novels

Non-fiction

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References

  1. 1 2 3 page 62-64, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN   0-313-33428-5
  2. 1 2 UQP - Marele Day
  3. 1 2 Australian Crime Fiction Database - Marele Day
  4. Ramos, Dino-Ray (13 May 2018). "Ann Dowd And Essie Davis Set for Gothic Drama Series 'Lambs Of God'". Deadline. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  5. "Marele Day | Byron Writers Festival". 2 May 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  6. "northerly Autumn 2022 by Byron Writers Festival - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.