Malla nunn biography
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 Australianscreenwriter and author.[1] Her works include the murder mysteriesA 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)