Malcolm Knox

Background

Malcolm Knox grew up in Sydney and studied in Sydney and Scotland.

Career

He has held a number of positions at the Sydney Morning Herald including chief cricket correspondent (1996-1999), assistant sport editor (1999–2000) and literary editor (2002-2006). He has written nineteen books including five novels.

Achievements

• Named one of the Sydney Morning Herald"s Best Young Australian novelists (2001) A Private Manitoba, was shortlisted for the Commomwealth Book Prize and the Tasmanian Premier’s Award. Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington) for the exposé of fraudulent author Norma Khouri (author of Forbidden Love). He was runner up for Graham Perkin Award for Journalist of the Year 2004. Winner of a Ned Kelly Award (2005) Best First Fiction for A Private Manitoba Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo 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 (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.

Works

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  • A Private Man