Marion Arnott

Marion Arnott is a Scottish mystery, science fiction and fantasy writer. As well as writing, Arnott also works as an English and history secondary school teacher at St Andrew's Academy.[1]

She won the Crime Writers' Association Short Dagger Award in 2001[2] with Prussian Snowdrops which focuses on a journalist who is sent to a remote part of Germany by the Nazis after making fun of the regime.[1] She was also shortlisted for the award in 2002 for her short story Marbles, and in 2003 for Dollface.[3]

Her fantasy short story, The Little Drummer Boy, was nominated for the 2007 British Fantasy Award for best short fiction.[4] The story focuses on Francis, a boy who is routinely beaten by his father, who discovers he can leave his own body at will and enter other people's.[5]

References
  1. "Teacher's stab at crime fiction wins £1,500 award". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. "Winners archive — The Crime Writers' Association". Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. Sobin, Roger M. (2011). The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press Inc. p. 113. ISBN 9781615952038.
  4. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2007 British Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 30 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. "Extended Play: the Elastic Book of Music, Gary Couzens (ed.)". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 8 October 2019.


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