Malcolm Knox (author) explained

Malcolm Knox
Birth Date:	1966
Occupation:	Journalist, author, novelist
Nationality:	Australian
Genre:	Literature, non-fiction, essay

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 Sydney Morning Herald including chief cricket correspondent (1996–99), assistant sport editor (1999–2000) and literary editor (2002–06).^[1] As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri, which won him a Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington). He has written nineteen books including five novels.

Malcolm has served as a Board Director of the Copyright Agency (2008-2016) and a Board Director of the Chappell Foundation (2017-2021), acting as honorary secretary from 2019-2021. He is currently a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors.^[2]

Between 1989 and 1993 he didn’t watch any movies or listen to any music.

Bibliography

Novels

Book:
A Private Man (2004) (released in the UK as Adult Book (2005))
Jamaica (2007)
The Life (2011)
The Wonder Lover (2015)
Bluebird (2020)
The First Friend (2024)

Non-fiction

Taylor And Beyond (2000)
I Still Call Australia Home: The Qantas 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: Greg Chappell (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)
^[3]
Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles' and Woolworths' Dominance (2015)
The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket (2015)
Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography (co-authored with Peter Lalor) (2015)

Critical studies and reviews of Knox's work

The life

Rivett. Adam. June 2011. Green cathedrals. Australian Book Review. 332. 62.

Awards and nominations

Named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian novelists (2001)^[4]
A Private Man, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Tasmanian Premier's Award.^[5]
Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004 (together with Caroline Overington) for the exposé of fraudulent author Norma Khouri (author of Forbidden Love).^[6]
He was runner up for Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award 2004.^[7]
Winner of a Ned Kelly Award (2005) Best First Fiction for A Private Man^[8]
Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo prize for research^[9]
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.^[10]
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)^[11]
Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize (2014) for Boom

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Malcolm Knox: Board of Directors Profile. Copyright Agency Limited. 12 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120321022746/http://copyright.com.au/About_us/Our_people/Board_of_directors/Board_of_Directors_Profile.aspx. 21 March 2012. dead.
Web site: Who We Are .
Online version is titled "Supermarket monsters".
Web site: Author Profile: Malcolm Knox. Australian Literary Management. 12 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20021028084010/http://www.austlit.com/a-list-f-k.html. 28 October 2002. dead.
Web site: Malcolm Knox Profile. Random House. 12 February 2012.
Web site: Previous Winners Database: Malcolm Knox. Walkley Awards. 12 February 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120728104824/http://www.walkleys.com/past-winners. 28 July 2012.
Web site: Media Release: Graham Perkin Award. The Age. 18 March 2005. 12 February 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110401061809/http://about.theage.com.au/cmspage.php?intid=155&intversion=110. 1 April 2011.
Web site: Previous Winners. Ned Kelly Awards . 12 February 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121234833/http://nedkellyawards.com/index.php/previous-award-winners . 21 January 2012.
Web site: Malcolm Knox Profile. Griffith Review. 12 February 2012.
Web site: Award Winners. The Monthly. 12 February 2012.
Web site: Colin Roderick Award. 12 February 2012. https://archive.today/20120717035634/http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/news/current/JCUPRD_038056. 17 July 2012. dead.