Malla Nunn
Malla Nunn (born in Swaziland ) is an Australian filmmaker and writer of South African descent.
Life
Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and attended a mixed-race Christian school ( boarding school ). In the 1970s she emigrated with her family to Western Australia , where she attended the University of Western Australia and graduated with a BA ( majors in English and history). During a subsequent stay in the United States, she met her future husband. Back in Australia, she began writing and making award-winning short documentaries and corporate videos .
After a few short stories, the first volume of a planned series of detective novels with the Johannesburg detective Emmanuel Cooper von Nunn was published in Australia in 2008 and in the USA at the beginning of 2009 with A Beautiful Place to Die (German 2009 as A beautiful place to die during construction ) ; The background to this is the apartheid- ruled South Africa of the 1950s.
Malla Nunn lives (as of 2017) with her husband and two children in Sydney .
Filmography
- Fade to white
- Sweetbreeze
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Servant of the Ancestors (1999)
- Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival 2000
bibliography
The novels with detective Emmanuel Cooper:
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A Beautiful Place to Die (2009)
- A beautiful place to die, by Armin Gontermann; Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-352-00771-2
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Let the Dead Lie (2010)
- Let the dead rest, by Armin Gontermann; Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-352-00800-9
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Blessed are the Dead , also Silent Valley (2012)
- Valley of Silence, German by Laudan & Szelinski; Argument, Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-86754-207-4
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Present Darkness (2014)
- Time of darkness, German by Laudan & Szelinski; Argument, Hamburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-86754-217-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Malla Nunn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Malla Nunn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “Malla Nunn Revealed” , Interview with Simon & Schuster (English; with photo)
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Apartheid still shapes us” Interview by Christiane Müller-Lobeck In: die tageszeitung . October 12, 2016
- ↑ “A Beautiful Place To Die by Malla Nunn” - Review in the Australian Crime Fiction Database (accessed August 16, 2009)
- ↑ Malla Nunn on panmacmillan.com (English; accessed on May 16, 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Well, Malla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian filmmaker and writer of South African descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swaziland |