Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel[1] and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work How to Write Crime.[2]
Biography
editDay was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb. She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University. She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s.[1]
Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based[3] private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers;[1] it became a bestseller.[2] Lambs of God was adapted into a TV series of the same name in 2019, starring Ann Dowd and Essie Davis.[4]
She lives on the New South Wales North Coast,[3] where she is on the board of Byron Writers Festival[5] and was the mentor of their residential mentorship program from 2002-2022.[6]
Bibliography
editClaudia Valentine series
edit- The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (1988) - Shamus Award winner
- The Case of the Chinese Boxes (1990)
- The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado (1993)
- The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi (1995)
Other novels
edit- Shirley's Song (1984)
- Lambs of God (1997)
- Mavis Levack, P.I. (2000)
- Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife (2003)
- The Sea Bed (2009)
Non-fiction
edit- Successful Promotion by Writers (1993)
- How to Write Crime (1996) – Ned Kelly Award winner
- Reckless (2023)
References
edit- ^ a b c page 62-64, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5
- ^ a b UQP - Marele Day
- ^ a b Australian Crime Fiction Database - Marele Day
- ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (13 May 2018). "Ann Dowd And Essie Davis Set for Gothic Drama Series 'Lambs Of God'". Deadline. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "Marele Day | Byron Writers Festival". 2 May 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "northerly Autumn 2022 by Byron Writers Festival - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 4 June 2022.