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Malcolm Knox Malcolm Knox i(A15747 works by)
Born: Established: 1966 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Journalist and novelist Malcolm Knox was a cricket writer for the Age prior to becoming Literary Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH). In 2006 Knox left his role with the SMH to join Pan Macmillan as an editorial consultant. His works of nonfiction include monographs on the history of the sport of cricket.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2013 winner Ashurst Business Literature Prize for Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Gold Rush to GFC
2004 joint winner Walkley Award Investigative Journalism Shared with Caroline Overington for their 'Norma Khouri Investigation'.

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Romper Stomper ( dir. Geoffrey Wright et. al. )agent Australia : Stan , 2018 11527496 2018 series - publisher film/TV

Set twenty-five years after the original film, the series follows the new generation of far-right activists and the anti-fascist groups who oppose them.

2018 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
y separately published work icon The Wonder Lover Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8354863 2015 single work novel

The compartments in our father's life were not the separations he needed to build to preserve his sanity. They were his sanity. When he fell in love... when he fell to the abjection he deserved, the walls began dissolving. And once the walls came down between all three, or now four, of his lives, so did every other retaining wall - between past and present, present and future, self- and non-self, dream and wakefulness. The walls were his sanity. Love had driven him mad....

'This is the story of John Wonder, a man with three families, each one kept secret from the other, each one containing two children, a boy and a girl, each called Adam and Evie. As he travels from family to family in different cities, he works as an Authenticator, verifying world records, confirming facts, setting things straight, while his own life is a teetering tower of breathtaking lies and betrayals...

'This is a stunning novel that again and spectacularly confirms Malcolm Knox as one of our brightest stars, an imaginative tour de force that ranks alongside the best work of Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis, David Ireland and Peter Carey. '

'The Guardian famously wrote of Malcolm, 'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones', but this time around he's got the orchestra along as well and every single note rings deep and rich and true. This bedtime story told by children to adults is jaw-droppingly original, breathtakingly audacious and dazzlingly accomplished... ' (Publication summary)

2016 longlisted Voss Literary Prize
2015 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
y separately published work icon Bradman's War : How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield Melbourne : Viking , 2012 Z1889590 2012 single work biography 'Hailed as one of the greatest cricket teams of all time the 1948 'Invincibles' are the only Australians to complete a tour of England undefeated.' (Publisher's blurb)
2013 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-Fiction
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