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May

NSW Premier’s Awards: Meet the Writers

Sydney Writers' Festival, Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 1:30pm

Some of the just-announced winners of the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards as they discuss what it takes to be an award-winning writer, the impact awards have on a writer’s career, and what it feels like to follow in the footsteps of previous winners such as Peter Carey, David Malouf and Helen Garner. (shawjonathan)

May

David Malouf: Celebrating 80 Years

Sydney Writers' Festival, Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 11:30am

David Malouf speaks with Tegan Bennett about his life and work. (aeclark)

Event location: Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay

Mar

David Malouf

The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing and Ideas, Monday, March 17, 2014 at 6:15pm

David Malouf is internationally recognised as one of Australia’s finest writers – and a master of many forms, from poetry to plays, and novels to opera libretti. He has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

He is a magician at conjuring image, at transforming sensation into experience: perhaps this is why he works so superlatively in miniature.

His latest book, A First Place, is a collection of essays and personal writing, released to celebrate his 80th birthday. Covering geography, topography, history, multiculturalism, Brisbane and the idea of home, A First Place encapsulates the beauty and contradictions of contemporary Australia.

To celebrate David Malouf’s birthday and achievements, we’re hosting a retrospective of his poetry and short stories. Australia’s first lady of letters, Ramona Koval, will travel with David Malouf on a journey to the heart of Australian life. (rodneyvc)… (more)

Mar

David Malouf - Earth Hour and A First Place

Gleebooks, Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 6pm

David Malouf discusses Earth Hour, and A First Place, with Delia Falconer. (aeclark)

Mar

Poetry Readings

Adelaide Festival - Writers’ Week, Monday, March 3, 2014 at 5pm

Poetry readings with David Malouf, Lisa Jacobson, Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O’Brien, Jeet Thayil, and Yang Lian; hosted by Peter Goldsworthy. (aeclark)

Event location: West Stage

Mar

David Malouf

Adelaide Festival - Writers’ Week, Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 10:45pm

David Malouf in conversation with Mike Ladd. (aeclark)

Event location: East Stage

May

An Hour with David Malouf

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 10am

David Malouf

There is always a beautiful calm in David Malouf’s prose, even when it involves disturbing events like the life of the lost boy, as in Remembering Babylon. Partly it is the sense of control of a master-story teller spinning a yarn. The reader awaits with anticipation the next, brilliantly executed turn of the plot. But one comes back to this sense of tone - beautifully centred, modest yet as far reaching as the curve on the horizon at sunset. Malouf established himself as one of the great Australian writers with award-winning novels and short stories. Now he is simply himself, a writer from the periphery who has become part of the central narrative of what it is to be human today. Chair: Iain Sharp. (dakvid)… (more)

May

Short and Sweet

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Friday, May 15, 2009 at 3pm

May

New Zealand Listener Opening Night

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 7:30pm

Event location: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

Apr

West End Library celebrates 80 years

West End Library, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 09:30am

David Malouf

Join David Malouf, Getano Bann and other local identities to celebrate West End Library's 80th birthday. West End Library opened in 1929 and is the oldest purpose-built library in Queensland. Its famous bell tower was built in memory of fallen soldiers and restored in 2007. (petermk)

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Malouf, David George Joseph

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1934-03-20

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male

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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

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Brisbane Grammar School

University of Queensland

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Phillips, Jill (sister)

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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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Deborah Rogers (Rogers ∙ Coleridge & White)

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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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