David Malouf
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About the Author
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. näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Associated Works
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Avustaja — 295 kappaletta
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Avustaja — 25 kappaletta
Facing Writers : Australia's Leading Writers Talk with Dagmar Strauss (1990) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Stories from Down Under : nine short stories from Australia and New Zealand — Tekijä — 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Malouf, George Joseph David
- Syntymäaika
- 1934
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Australië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australië
- Asuinpaikat
- Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Tuscany, Italy - Koulutus
- Brisbane Grammar School
University of Queensland - Ammatit
- poet
lecturer
novelist
essayist
short-story writer - Suhteet
- Phillips, Jill (sister)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2000)
Lannan Literary Award ( [2000])
Australian Living Treasure
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)
Pascall Prize (1988) - Agentti
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Malouf werd in 1934 geboren als kind van een Libanese vader en een Engels-joodse moeder. Hij leeft afwisselend in Australië en Italië.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the way David Malouf introduces the bare bones of the story, and then gives us the back story on so many of the characters.
There is suspicion and distrust, compassion and understanding, despair and struggle.
My daughter had been assigned 'Remembering Babylon' as part of a literature course in her university studies, and had left it at my place when she'd finished. I am so grateful.… (lisätietoja)