Malcolm Knox (born 1966), is an Australian journalist and author.

Life and literary career

Malcolm Knox grew up in Sydney and studied in Sydney and Scotland. He has held a number of positions at the Sydney Morning Herald including chief

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correspondent (1996–99), assistant sport editor (1999–2000) and literary editor (2002–06). As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist,

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, which won him a

Walkley Award The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

(Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington). He has written nineteen books including five novels. Between 1989 and 1993 he didn’t watch any movies or listen to any music.

Bibliography

Novels

* * '' A Private Man'' (2004) (released in the UK as ''Adult Book'' (2005)) * ''

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'' (2007) * '' The Life'' (2011) * ''The Wonder Lover'' (2015) *''Bluebird'' (2020)

Non-fiction

* ''Taylor And Beyond'' (2000) * ''I Still Call Australia Home: The

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Story 1920–2005'' (2005) * ''1788 Words or Less: A short short history of Australia'' (2005) * ''Secrets of the Jury Room'' (2006) * ''Scattered: The Inside Story of Ice in Australia'' (2008) * ''On Obsession'' (2008) * ''The Greatest: The players, the moments, the matches 1993–2008'' (2009) * ''The Captains: The story behind Australia's second most important job'' (2010) * ''Fierce Focus:

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'' (2011) * '' Bradman's War: How the 1948 invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield'' (2012) * ''Never a Gentlemen's Game'' (2012) * ''Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Goldrush to GFC'' (2013) * * ''Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles' and Woolworths' Dominance'' (2015) * ''The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket'' (2015) * ''

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: The Official Biography'' (co-authored with Peter Lalor) (2015)

Critical studies and reviews of Knox's work

;The life *

Awards and nominations

* Named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian novelists (2001) *'' A Private Man'', was shortlisted for the

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and the Tasmanian Premier's Award. *

(Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington) for the exposé of fraudulent author

(author of '' Forbidden Love''). * He was runner up for

Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of Graham Perkin, who was editor of ''The ...

2004. * Winner of a

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewar ...

(2005) Best First Fiction for '' A Private Man'' * Secrets of the Jury Room won an

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prize for research * Walkley Award (2007) for Magazine Feature Writing for essay 'Cruising: Life and Death on the High Seas' was published in the September 2006 issue of The Monthly. * Winner of the

Colin Roderick Award The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presente ...

(2008) for ''Jamaica'' (best book published in Australia in the preceding year dealing with an aspect of Australian life) * Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize (2014) for ''Boom''

References

External links

Malcolm Knox at Allen & Unwin

Malcolm Knox at Random House
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