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David George Joseph Malouf (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and
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. Elected a Fellow of the
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in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the
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and the
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. He also delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures. Malouf's 1974 collection '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' won the
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and the
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. His 1990 novel '' The Great World'' won numerous awards, including the 1991
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and Prix Femina Étranger His 1993 novel '' Remembering Babylon'' was shortlisted for the
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and won the 1994 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1994 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize for Fiction, the 1995 Prix Baudelaire and the 1996
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. Malouf was awarded the
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in 2000, the Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008 and the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2016. He has been mentioned as a candidate for the
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.


Early life

Malouf was born in
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, Australia, to a Christian Lebanese father and an English-born mother of Sephardi Jewish descent. His paternal family had immigrated from Lebanon in the 1880s, while his mother's family had moved to England via the Netherlands, before migrating to Australia in 1913. He attended
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and graduated from the
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with a B.A. degree in 1955. He lectured for a short period before moving to London, where he taught at
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, before relocating to
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in 1962. He returned to Australia in 1968, taught at his old school,Gilling, Tom, "David Malouf: Writer", '' The Weekend Australian Magazine'', 2–3 August 2008, p. 28 and lectured in English at the Universities of Queensland and
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.


Personal life

Malouf is gay. He has lived in England and
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, and for three decades spent most of his time in Sydney. Malouf now lives in Queensland.


Writing

Though he would later become known abroad for his prose works, Malouf initially concentrated on poetry. His first work appeared in 1962, as part of a book he shared with three more Australian poets. His collection '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' (1974) features childhood memories, his mother, his sister, travelling in Europe and war. 1992 brought the publication of ''Poems, 1959–1989''. Some of his poetry was also collected in ''Revolving Days: Selected Poems'' (2008), which is divided into four sections: on childhood, then Europe, then relocating to Sydney, then travelling between Europe and Australia. Malouf's first novel, '' Johnno'' (1975), is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young man growing up in Brisbane during the
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. Johnno engages in shoplifting and goes to
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s, which contrasts with his friend Dante's middle-class conservatism. La Boite Theatre adapted it for stage in 2006. Malouf began writing full-time in 1977. '' An Imaginary Life'' (1978) is about the final years of
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. Malouf's 1982 novella about three acquaintances and their experience of the
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was titled '' Fly Away Peter''. His epic novel '' The Great World'' (1990) tells the story of two Australians and their relationship amid the turmoil of two World Wars, including imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II. His
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-shortlisted novel '' Remembering Babylon'' (1993) is set in northern Australia during the 1850s amid a community of English immigrant farmers (with one Scottish family) whose isolated existence is threatened by the arrival of a stranger, a young white man raised from boyhood by
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. Malouf has written several collections of short stories, and a play, '' Blood Relations'' (1988). Australian critic Peter Craven described Malouf's 2006 short-story collection ''
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'' as "as formidable and bewitching a collection of stories as you would be likely to find anywhere in the English-speaking world". Craven went on to state that "No one else in this country has: the maintenance of tone, the expertness of prose, the easeful transition between lyrical and realist effects. The man is a master, a superb writer, and also (which is not the same thing) a completely sophisticated literary gent". ''The Complete Stories'' appeared in 2007. Malouf has also written libretti for three operas (including ''
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'', an adaptation of the novel of the same name by
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and first produced in the 1986
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conducted by Stuart Challender), and ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'' (with music by
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), which combines a semi-autobiographical story by
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with Kipling's '' Jungle Books''. Malouf published his
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, titled ''12 Edmondstone Street'', in 1985.


Lecturing

Malouf delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures on ABC Radio.


Themes and subject matter

Malouf's work tends to be set in Australia, though "a European sensibility" is also present. His writing is characterised by a heightened sense of spatial relations, from the physical environments into which he takes his readers—whether within or outside built spaces, or in a natural landscape. He has likened each of his succession of novels to the discovery and exploration of a new room in a house, rather than part of an overarching development. "At a certain point, you begin to see what the connections are between things, and you begin to know what space it is you are exploring." From his first novel '' Johnno'' onwards, his themes focused on "male identity and soul-searching". He said that much of the male writing that preceded him "was about the world of action. I don't think that was ever an accurate description of men's lives". He identified
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as the writer who turned this around in Australian literature—that White's writing was the kind "that goes behind inarticulacy and or unwillingness to speak, writing that gives the language of feeling to people who don't have it themselves". Malouf also said that "I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives". However, after nearly four decades of writing, he concluded that in older writers can sometimes be found "a fading of the intensity of the imagination, and ... of the interest in the tiny details of life and behaviour—you see ritersgetting a bit impatient with that."


Awards and honours

As well as his numerous accolades for fiction, Malouf was awarded the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 1988. In 2008, Malouf won the Australian Publishers Association's Lloyd O'Neil Award for outstanding service to the Australian book industry. He was elected a Fellow of the
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in 2008. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the
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. *1974:
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, for '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' *1974: Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award, for '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' *1974:
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, for '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' *1974:
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, for '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' *1979:
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, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, for '' An Imaginary Life'' *1982: ''The Age'' Book of the Year Award, for '' Fly Away Peter'' *1983:
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, for ''Child's Play'' and '' Fly Away Peter'' *1985: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, for ''Antipodes'' *1990: National Library of Australia National Audio Book-of-the-Year Award joint winner, for '' The Great World'' *1991:
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, for '' The Great World'' *1991:
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(South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book from the Region Award), for '' The Great World'' *1991:
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, Overall Best Book Award, for '' The Great World'' *1991: Prix Femina Étranger, for '' The Great World'' *1991: Honorary doctorate from the
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*1992: Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, National Fiction Award, for '' The Great World'' *1993:
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, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1993:
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shortlist, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1994: Prix Femina Étranger, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1994:
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, South-East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book from the Region Award, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1994: ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize for Fiction, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1994: National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction shortlist, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1995: Prix Baudelaire (France), for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1996:
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, for '' Remembering Babylon'' *1996: ''The Age'' Book of the Year Award shortlist, for '' The Conversations at Curlow Creek'' *1997:
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shortlist, for '' The Conversations at Curlow Creek'' *2000:
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*2007: ''
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'' Book of the Year Award for Fiction, for ''
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'' *2007: The
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, Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award for ''
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'' *2008: Australia-Asia Literary Award, for ''The Complete Stories'' *2009:
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of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artist", announced as part of the
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celebrations *2009: John D. Criticos Prize for Greek literature, for ''
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'' *2011:
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shortlist, for ''
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'' *2011: International Booker Prize shortlist *2014: Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry,
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, for ''Earth Hour'' *2016: Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature


Selected bibliography


Novels

* '' Johnno'' (1975) * '' An Imaginary Life'' (1978) * ''Harland's Half Acre'' (1984) * '' The Great World'' (1990) * '' Remembering Babylon'' (1993) * '' The Conversations at Curlow Creek'' (1996) * ''
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'' (2009)


Novella

* '' Fly Away Peter'' (1982)


Short story collections

* ''Child's Play'' (1982) * ''
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'' (1985) * ''Untold Tales'' (1999) * '' Dream Stuff'' (2000) * ''
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'' (2006) * ''The Complete Stories'' (2007)


Poetry collections

* ''
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'' (1970) * '' Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems'' (1974) * ''Poems 1975–76'' (1976) * ''First Things Last'' (1980) * ''Wild Lemons: Poems'' (1980) * ''Selected Poems 1959–1989'' (1992) * ''Guide to the Perplexed and Other Poems'' (
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: Warners Bay, New South Wales: Picaro Press, 2007, 16pp) * ''Typewriter Music'' (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, 82pp) * ''Revolving Days: Selected Poems'' (2008) * * ''An Open Book'' (2018), University of Queensland Press,


Non-fiction

* ''12 Edmondstone St'' (
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– 1985) * "A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness", Boyer Lectures (1998) * * ''Made in England: Australia's British inheritance'' (''
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'', Black Inc – QE12 – November 2003) * ''On Experience'' (''Little Books on Big Themes'' – 2008) * "The Happy Life" (''Quarterly Essay'', Black Inc – 2011) * ''The Writing Life: Book 2'' (2014)


Plays

* '' Blood Relations'' (1988)


Libretti

* ''
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'' (1986, music: Richard Meale) * ''Mer de glace'' (1991, music: Richard Meale) * ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'' (1993) * ''
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'' (2000)


References


Further reading

* Giffuni, Cathe. "The Prose of David Malouf", ''Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada'', No. 7, June 1992. * James, Clive
"A Memory called Malouf"
''New York Review'', 21 December 2000.


External links

*
David Malouf at Random House Australia
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