Malla Nunn


Malla Nunn is a screenwriter and author, who was born in Swaziland. Her works include the murder mystery, A Beautiful Place to Die, and Let the Dead Lie.

Private life

Nunn was born in Swaziland and moved to Perth with her parents in the 1970s. She attended the University of Western Australia graduating with a B.A. with a double major in English and History. She completed a M.A. in Theatre Studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia. While in America she met her husband-to-be and they live with their two children in Sydney.

Career

Nunn wrote and directed several short film including the documentary Servant of the Ancestors in 1998 which screened at several festivals. It won Best Documentary Silver Images, Pan African, Zanzibar Film Festival, 2000. Her first book A Beautiful Place to Die was published in 2008. Set in South Africa in the beginning of the apartheid era in South Africa it featured Detective Emmanuel Cooper. This was the beginning of the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series.

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