David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, and his 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1996), and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, to a Lebanese-Christian father and an English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent.
He was an avid reader as a child...
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David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, and his 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1996), and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, to a Lebanese-Christian father and an English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent.
He was an avid reader as a child, and at 12 years old was reading such books as Wuthering Heights, Bleak House and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. These books, he says, taught him about sex: "They told you there was a life out there that was amazingly passionate". He attended Brisbane Grammar School and graduated from the University of Queensland in 1955. He taught at his old school, and lectured in English at the Universities of Queensland and Sydney.
He has lived in England and Tuscany, Italy; for the past three decades, most of his time has been spent in Sydney. Like many...
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