Malla Nunn Malla Nunn i(A119091 works by)
Born: Established:
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Swaziland,
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Southern Africa, Africa,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Malla Nunn grew up in Swaziland before moving with her parents to Perth in the 1970s. She attended university in WA, and then the US. In New York, she worked on film sets, wrote her first screenplay and met her American husband-to-be, before returning to Australia where she began writing and directing short films and corporate videos.' Nunn's films have won numerous awards and been shown at international film festivals.

Source: Pan Macmillan Australia website, http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/
Sighted: 24/03/2009

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y separately published work icon Sugar Town Queens Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 21826414 2021 single work novel young adult

'From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and a powerful story of how friendship saves and heals.

'When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince and this was the fairytale ending their family was destined for. But in truth, Amandla's father has long been gone—since before Amandla was born—and even her mother's memory of him is hazy. In fact, many of her mother's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is Black.

'When Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. What she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. But with her best friends at her side, Amandla is ready to take on family secrets and the devil himself. These Sugar Town queens are ready to take over the world to expose the hard truths of their lives.' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Young Adult Fiction
2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers Shadowers' Choice Award
2022 shortlisted Readings Prizes The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
2022 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2022 highly commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2022 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
y separately published work icon When the Ground Is Hard Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 15785350 2019 single work children's fiction children's

'Adele loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school will be great with her best friend Delia at her side. Then Delia dumps her for a new girl with more money, and Adele is forced to share a room with Lottie, the school pariah, who doesn't pray and defies teachers' orders. As they share a copy of Jane Eyre, Lottie's gruff exterior and honesty grow on Adele, and together they take on bullies and protect each other from the vindictive and prejudiced teachers. When a boy goes missing on campus, Adele and Lottie must work together to solve the mystery, and in the process learn the true meaning of friendship.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 winner 'The Los Angeles Times' Book Prize
2021 longlisted Book Links Award for Historical Fiction
2020 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adults' Fiction
2020 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
2020 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Older Readers
2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
y separately published work icon Present Darkness Sydney : Xoum , 2014 7528697 2014 single work novel crime

'Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, the sensational new novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces a test of loyalty and friendship.

'Six days before Christmas, Cooper sits at his desk at Johannesburg’s Marshall Square station, ready for his holiday in Mozambique. A call comes in: a respectable, white couple has been beaten and left for dead in their bedroom. The couple’s teenage daughter identifies the attacker as Aaron Shabalala – the youngest son of Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala – Cooper’s best friend and a man to whom he owes his life.

'The Detective Branch isn’t interested in evidence that might contradict their star witness’s story – especially so close to the holidays. Determined to ensure justice for Aaron, Cooper, Shabalala and their trusted friend Dr Daniel Zweigman hunt down the truth. Their investigation uncovers a violent world of Sophiatown gangs, thieves and corrupt police detectives who will do anything to keep their dark world intact . . .' (Publication summary)

2015 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
2015 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2015 finalist Barry Award Best Paperback Original
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