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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)
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Works by David Malouf
Remembering Babylon 1,045 copies, 27 reviews
An Imaginary Life 677 copies, 17 reviews
Ransom 651 copies, 41 reviews
The Great World 384 copies, 4 reviews
The Conversations at Curlow Creek 341 copies, 10 reviews
Fly Away Peter 305 copies, 8 reviews
Johnno 248 copies, 7 reviews
Dream Stuff 172 copies
Harland's Half Acre 142 copies, 3 reviews
The Complete Stories 130 copies, 1 review
12 Edmondstone Street 111 copies, 2 reviews
Every Move You Make 93 copies
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World 86 copies, 1 review
Antipodes 72 copies, 1 review
Child's Play, with Eustace and The Prowler 49 copies
Made in England : Australia's British inheritance 32 copies
Child's Play 30 copies
The Writing Life 22 copies
A first place 21 copies, 2 reviews
Earth Hour 17 copies, 1 review
Child's Play/the Bread of Times to Come: Two Novellas in One Volume 17 copies
A Spirit Of Play 17 copies
On Experience (Little Books on Big Themes) 14 copies, 1 review
An open book 12 copies, 2 reviews
David Malouf: Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays & Interviews (Uqp… 10 copies, 1 review
Typewriter Music 10 copies, 1 review
Selected Poems, 1959-89 9 copies
Jane Eyre - A Libretto 9 copies
4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story 9 copies
Being there. Book 3 9 copies, 1 review
David Malouf: Selected Poems (A & R Modern Poets) 9 copies
The one day 7 copies
First things last : poems 6 copies
Neighbours in a thicket : poems 6 copies
Revolving Days: Selected Poems 5 copies
Bicycle and other poems 5 copies
The ON-nibus (Little Books on Big Themes) 4 copies
The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems 4 copies
Waterfront 4 copies
Australians : Responses to the Land. Intro. By David Malouf 2 copies
Four Poets 2 copies
Baa baa black sheep : a jungle tale 2 copies
Bill Henson Photographs 2 copies
Such is Life 2 copies, 1 review
QE 41: The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World 1 copy
Som eit barn : roman 1 copy
REGATE 1 copy
L'ENFANT DU PAYS BARBARE (SPIRITUALITE) 1 copy
The Young Desire It 1 copy
A Little Tea, a Little Chat (Text Classics) 1 copy
Southern Skies {short story} 1 copy
Guide to the perplexed 1 copy
'Castle Hill Lear: Patrick White reappraised' in TLS 5414, 5 Jan 2007 1 copy
'Rational monsters: the revolutionary thinking of the C18th ...' in ARB,… 1 copy
The Valley of Lagoons 1 copy
Into the light : 150 years of cultural treasures at the University of… 1 copy
Poems, 1975-76 1 copy
Sky News 1 copy, 1 review
Blood Relations 1 copy
Verso mezzanotte 1 copy
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Also by David Malouf
Riders in the Chariot (Introduction, some editions) 613 copies, 15 reviews
The Middle Parts of Fortune (Introduction, some editions) 355 copies, 5 reviews
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 304 copies
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read,… (Contributor) 287 copies, 5 reviews
Granta 77: What We Think of America (Contributor) 203 copies
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (Contributor) 166 copies, 1 review
Granta 70: Australia - The New New World (Contributor) 154 copies, 1 review
Granta 68: Love Stories (Contributor) 146 copies, 1 review
Granta 95: Loved Ones (Contributor) 114 copies
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (Contributor) 69 copies, 1 review
Australian gay and lesbian writing : An anthology (Contributor) 49 copies
The Young Desire It (Introduction, some editions) 46 copies, 1 review
Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (Contributor) 28 copies, 1 review
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection (Contributor) 27 copies, 1 review
The Best Australian Essays 2008 (Contributor) 26 copies, 1 review
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Malouf, David George Joseph
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Date of birth
1934-03-20
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Gender
male
Nationality
Australia
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Birthplace
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Place of death
Cause of death
Places of residence
Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Tuscany, Italy
Education
Brisbane Grammar School
University of Queensland
Occupations
poet
lecturer
novelist
essayist
short-story writer
Relationships
Phillips, Jill (sister)
Organizations
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)
Agents
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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