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 in Paisley, Renfrewshire.[1][2]
She won the Crime Writers' Association Short Dagger Award in 2001[3] 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.[4]
Her fantasy short story, The Little Drummer Boy, was nominated for the 2007 British Fantasy Award for best short fiction.[5] 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.[6]
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