David Malouf

David Malouf is internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest writers. His novels include Johnno, An Imaginary Life, Harland's Half Acre, and The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in 1991. Remembering Babylon, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and won the inaugural IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has also written five collections of poetry - his Selected Poems: 1959-1989 is published by Chatto - and...See more

David Malouf is internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest writers. His novels include Johnno, An Imaginary Life, Harland's Half Acre, and The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in 1991. Remembering Babylon, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and won the inaugural IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has also written five collections of poetry - his Selected Poems: 1959-1989 is published by Chatto - and three opera libretti, of which the latest, Baa Baa Black Sheep, is published by Chatto. He lives in Sydney. See less