Malcolm Kempt
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Malcolm Kempt

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Malcolm Kempt spent seventeen years working as a criminal lawyer in the remote Arctic before leaving to write full-time. He won the Percy Janes Award for Best Unpublished Novel in 2023. His debut, A Gift Before Dying, was published by Crown (Penguin Random House) in January 2026. He is represented …

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Malcolm Kempt spent seventeen years working as a criminal lawyer in the remote Arctic before leaving to write full-time.

He won the Percy Janes Award for Best Unpublished Novel in 2023. His debut, A Gift Before Dying, was published by Crown (Penguin Random House) in January 2026. He is represented by Gideon Pine and Richard Pine at Inkwell Management in New York. He lives on the island of Newfoundland.

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