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

Day 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]

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References

External links

• Marele Day: an interview with the author of Lambs of God
• Podcast with Marele Day