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Marion Arnott is a Scottish mystery, science fiction and fantasy writer. Arnott also works as an English and history secondary school teacher at St Andrew's Academy in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

She won the Crime Writers' Association Short Dagger Award in 2001 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. She was also shortlisted for the award in 2002 for her short story Marbles, and in 2003 for Dollface.

Her fantasy short story, The Little Drummer Boy, was nominated for the 2007 British Fantasy Award for best short fiction. 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.

References

  1. ^ "Teacher's stab at crime fiction wins £1,500 award". www.scotsman.com. 17 November 2001. Archived from the original on 8 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. Young writer hopes to win top competition, Daily Record, 2 May 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2022
  3. "Winners archive — The Crime Writers' Association". Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. Sobin, Roger M. (2011). The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians. Poisoned Pen Press Inc. p. 113. ISBN 9781615952038.
  5. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2007 British Fantasy Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on 30 August 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  6. "Extended Play: the Elastic Book of Music, Gary Couzens (ed.)". www.britishfantasysociety.org. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

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