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David Malouf

Author of Remembering Babylon

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David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia on March 20, 1934. He received a B.A. with honours from the University of Queensland in 1954. He lived and worked in Europe from 1959 to 1968, then taught English at the University of Sydney until 1977. After 1977 he became a full-time poet and novelist. His collections of poetry include Bicycle and Other Poems, Neighbours in a Thicket, Wild Lemons, First Things Last, Typewriter Music, and An Open Book. He received the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Earth Hour. His novels include Johnno, Ransom, An Imaginary Life, Child's Play, Fly Away Peter, Harland's Half Acre, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make, and The Conversations at Curlow Creek. He received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger for The Great World and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Remembering Babylon. His collections of short stories include Antipodes, Untold Tales, Dream Stuff, and Every Move You Make. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His essays collections include A First Place and The Writing Life. He also wrote the libretto for Richard Meale's opera Voss. He won the 2016 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Remembering Babylon… (more)

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Works by David Malouf

Remembering Babylon 1,116 copies, 28 reviews

An Imaginary Life 719 copies, 17 reviews

Ransom 712 copies, 45 reviews

The Great World 409 copies, 6 reviews

The Conversations at Curlow Creek 364 copies, 10 reviews

Fly Away Peter 331 copies, 8 reviews

Johnno 278 copies, 8 reviews

Dream Stuff 185 copies

Harland's Half Acre 165 copies, 3 reviews

The Complete Stories 140 copies, 1 review

12 Edmondstone Street 118 copies, 2 reviews

Every Move You Make 96 copies

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World 91 copies, 2 reviews

Antipodes 79 copies, 1 review

Child's Play, with Eustace and The Prowler 53 copies

Made in England : Australia's British inheritance 35 copies, 1 review

Child's Play 31 copies

The Writing Life 22 copies

A first place 22 copies, 2 reviews

A Spirit Of Play 21 copies

Earth Hour 20 copies, 1 review

Child's Play/the Bread of Times to Come: Two Novellas in One Volume 17 copies

On Experience (Little Books on Big Themes) 16 copies, 1 review

An open book 15 copies, 2 reviews

David Malouf: Selected Poems (A & R Modern Poets) 13 copies

Typewriter Music 13 copies, 1 review

Selected Poems, 1959-89 11 copies

David Malouf: Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays & Interviews (Uqp… 10 copies, 1 review

Jane Eyre - A Libretto 9 copies

4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story 9 copies

Being there. Book 3 9 copies, 1 review

The one day 8 copies

Neighbours in a thicket : poems 7 copies

Revolving Days: Selected Poems 6 copies

The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems 6 copies

First things last : poems 6 copies

Bicycle and other poems 5 copies

Waterfront 4 copies

The ON-nibus (Little Books on Big Themes) 4 copies

Such is Life 2 copies, 1 review

Four Poets 2 copies

Blood Relations 2 copies

Bill Henson Photographs 2 copies

Baa baa black sheep : a jungle tale 2 copies

Resgate 1 copy

The Young Desire It 1 copy

A Little Tea, a Little Chat (Text Classics) 1 copy

L'ENFANT DU PAYS BARBARE (SPIRITUALITE) 1 copy

Som eit barn : roman 1 copy

Die Große Welt. dtv 11905 ; 3423119055 1 copy

QE 41: The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World 1 copy

Guide to the perplexed 1 copy

Uma Vida Imaginária (Portuguese Edition) 1 copy

Verso mezzanotte 1 copy

The Valley of Lagoons 1 copy

Poems, 1975-76 1 copy

'Rational monsters: the revolutionary thinking of the C18th ...' in ARB,… 1 copy

Sky News 1 copy, 1 review

Southern Skies {short story} 1 copy

'Castle Hill Lear: Patrick White reappraised' in TLS 5414, 5 Jan 2007 1 copy

Into the light : 150 years of cultural treasures at the University of… 1 copy

REGATE 1 copy

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Also by David Malouf

Ars amatoria [in translation] (Introduction, some editions) 1,589 copies, 33 reviews

Riders in the Chariot (Introduction, some editions) 663 copies, 18 reviews

The Middle Parts of Fortune (Introduction, some editions) 378 copies, 4 reviews

The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 318 copies

Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read,… (Contributor) 293 copies, 5 reviews

Granta 77: What We Think of America (Contributor) 214 copies

In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 173 copies, 2 reviews

Granta 70: Australia - The New New World (Contributor) 164 copies, 1 review

Granta 68: Love Stories (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review

Granta 95: Loved Ones (Contributor) 120 copies

The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review

Australian Gay and Lesbian Writing: An Anthology (Contributor) 56 copies

The Young Desire It (Introduction, some editions) 49 copies, 1 review

Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (Contributor) 31 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays 2008 (Contributor) 28 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection (Contributor) 27 copies, 1 review

Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays 2010 (Contributor) 23 copies

One World of Literature (Contributor) 23 copies

Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology (Contributor) 23 copies

The Best Australian Stories 2007 (Contributor) 22 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2006 (Contributor) 21 copies, 1 review

The Penguin book of the ocean (Contributor) 18 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2011 (Contributor) 15 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays 2003 (Contributor) 15 copies

TLS Short Stories (Contributor) 12 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2014 (Contributor) 10 copies

Facing Writers : Australia's Leading Writers Talk with Dagmar Strauss (Contributor) 5 copies

Stories from Down Under : nine short stories from Australia and New… (Author) 1 copy

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Malouf, David George Joseph

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1934-03-20

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Australia

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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia

London, England, UK

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Tuscany, Italy

Education

Brisbane Grammar School

University of Queensland

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Phillips, Jill (sister)

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Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)

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Awards and honors

Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2000)

Lannan Literary Award ( [2000])

Australian Living Treasure

Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)

Pascall Prize (1988)

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David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is openly gay.

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