Malorie Blackman had a variety of jobs before becoming a full time writer, including working as a Database Manager for Reuters for many years, which involved extensive travel in Europe and the United States.
 
Malorie's books for Transworld include Hacker and Thief!, both of which won the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award: Malorie is the only author to have won it twice! Hacker also won the W H Smith Mind Boggling Book Award in 1994.

Pig-Heart Boy was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. The BBC adapted Pig-Heart Boy for television and it went on to win a BAFTA for best children's drama.

Noughts & Crosses, a novel for older readers, is set in an alternate reality, where black and white are right and wrong. It is a stimulating and often provocative read where the black Crosses are the ruling class. It was published in 2001 to massive acclaim:

'Intelligent, emotional and imaginatively wicked'
Benjamin Zephaniah

Noughts and Crosses has won many awards, including the 2002 Children's Book award, the 2002 Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Lancashire Children's Book Award and the Fantastic Fiction award: the only award with a short list - and winner - entirely chosen by teenagers.

Noughts & Crosses was also voted as one of the nation's 100 favourite books in the BBC Big Read survey. Malorie wrote the novella Eye for an Eye for World Book Day 2003, continuing the tale told in Noughts & Crosses. Knife Edge is the gripping sequel to Noughts & Crosses .

Malorie has most recently been given the 2005 Eleanor Farjeon Award. The award is given to an individual in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. Previous winners have included Jacqueline Wilson and Philip Pullman.

 
'Malorie Blackman is becoming a bit of a national treasure'
The Times