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Malla Nunn

Malla Nunn
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Malla Nunn

Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a filmmaker with three award-winning films to her credit and is currently at work on her second novel.

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Ubuntu: We are people through other people.
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My life in 8 words: "A chaotic juggling act. Writing, children, dreaming, cooking."
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Blessed Are the Dead will be released on June 19, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Feb 08, 2012
Let the Dead Lie will be released on April 20, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
Let the Dead Lie is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Let the Dead Lie
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A Beautiful Place to Die has won an award
Mar 12, 2010
A Beautiful Place to Die is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
A Beautiful Place to Die will be released on October 20, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Oct 20, 2009
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Malla Nunn Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Ubuntu: We are people through other people. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. A shape shifter/ time traveller. Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. Every one of Charles Dickens villains are gems. Agatha Trunchbull in Dahl's "Matilda." Lucifer in the Good Book. Too many to list. Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. Whoza Mtwana by Abdullah Ibrahim, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, Plain Gold Ring by Nina Simone, Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi, Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba and the other 200 songs on my ipod! Q. What’s your best quality? A. My third world appreciation for every great thing in my life. Learn more about Malla Nunn

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Sun Chronicle, January 1, 2012
...of Precious Romotswe in Alexander McCall Smith's light-hearted series that begins with "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency." Malla Nunn turns up the heat and turns back the clock with her multi-layered debut novel of apartheid South Africa, "A Beautiful...
Oregonian, July 7, 2011
...Now a new generation of crime writers is trying to put apartheid and modern South Africa in focus. Malla Nunn wrote “A Beautiful Place to Die,” a wonderful and terrifying look at South Africa at the beginning of apartheid. Wessel Ebersohn's “The...
Books LIVE, September 21, 2011
...deserves credit for opening the door for other contemporary African crime writers from across the continent, such as Malla Nunn, Richard Kunzmann, Michael Stanley (the duo of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip), Kwei Quartey, and Deon Meyer. According to...
Crime Watch, August 2, 2011
...ve also heard very good things about some authors I haven't read yet, such as Katherine Howell, Malla Nunn, and Adrian Hyland. Given there were 23 novels nominated for the 2011 Ned Kelly for Best Fiction, there were always going to be plenty of good...
Crime Watch, August 2, 2011
...ve also heard very good things about some authors I haven't read yet, such as Katherine Howell, Malla Nunn, and Adrian Hyland. Given there were 23 novels nominated for the 2011 Ned Kelly for Best Fiction, there were always going to be plenty of good...
MYSTERIES in PARADISE, July 17, 2011
...Jenn @ for love of lovely words - A is for Agatha 9. MiP-A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE, Malla Nunn 10. raidergirl3(Alexander McCall Smith) 11. Mysterious Mutterings - A LILY OF THE FIELD, John Lawton 12. Reactions to Reading - A is for Archaeology 13. Dorte:...
Fair Dinkum Crime, May 13, 2011
...Cruelty (HarperCollins) (well I'm half way through it) P M Newton, The Old School (Penguin Books Australia) Malla Nunn, Let the Dead Lie (PanMacmillan Australia) Leigh Redhead, Thrill City (Allen & Unwin) Angela Savage, The Half-Child (Text) Felicity...
bookgirl's nightstand, May 2, 2011
...ll be decadent fun. And, another book that I bought recently is A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn. This is for my May mystery book group. I’m looking forward to reading a crime novel set in a tiny town between South Africa and Mozambique. So...