Malcolm Knox (author)
Malcolm Knox, 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, assistant sport editor and literary editor. As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri, which won him a Walkley Award in 2004.Malcolm has served as a Board Director of the Copyright Agency and a Board Director of the Chappell Foundation, acting as honorary secretary from 2019–2021. He is currently a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors.
Between 1989 and 1993 he did not watch any movies or listen to any music.
Novels
A Private Man Jamaica The Life The Wonder Lover- Bluebird
- ''The First Friend''
Non-fiction
Taylor And Beyond I Still Call Australia Home: The Qantas Story 1920–2005 1788 Words or Less: A short short history of Australia Secrets of the Jury Room Scattered: The Inside Story of Ice in Australia On Obsession The Greatest: The players, the moments, the matches 1993–2008 The Captains: The story behind Australia's second most important job Fierce Focus: Greg Chappell Bradman's War: How the 1948 invincibles turned the cricket pitch into a battlefield Never a Gentlemen's Game Boom: The Underground History of Australia, from Goldrush to GFC Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles' and Woolworths' Dominance The Keepers: The players at the heart of Australian cricket- ''Phillip Hughes: The Official Biography''
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
- A Private Man, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and the Tasmanian Premier's Award.
- Walkley Award in 2004 for the exposé of fraudulent author Norma Khouri.
- He was runner up for Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award 2004.
- Winner of a Ned Kelly Award Best First Fiction for A Private Man
- Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo prize for research
- Walkley Award 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 for Jamaica
- Winner of the Ashurst Business Literature Prize for Boom
- Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The First Friend
- Shortlisted for the Adult category of the ARA Historical Novel Prize for ''The First Friend''