1. David George Joseph Malouf is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist.
16 Facts About David Malouf
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David Malouf was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, the Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008 and the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2016.
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David Malouf has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, to a Christian Lebanese father and an English-born mother of Sephardi Jewish descent.
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David Malouf lectured for a short period before moving to London, where he taught at Holland Park School, before relocating to Birkenhead in 1962.
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David Malouf returned to Australia in 1968, taught at his old school, and lectured in English at the Universities of Queensland and Sydney.
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David Malouf has lived in England and Tuscany, and for three decades spent most of his time in Sydney.
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David Malouf's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Remembering Babylon is set in northern Australia during the 1850s amid a community of English immigrant farmers whose isolated existence is threatened by the arrival of a stranger, a young white man raised from boyhood by Indigenous Australians.
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David Malouf has written several collections of short stories, and a play, Blood Relations.
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David Malouf has written libretti for three operas, and Baa Baa Black Sheep, which combines a semi-autobiographical story by Rudyard Kipling with Kipling's Jungle Books.
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David Malouf published his memoir, titled 12 Edmondstone Street, in 1985.
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David Malouf's work tends to be set in Australia, though "a European sensibility" is present.
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David Malouf 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.
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In 2008, David Malouf won the Australian Publishers Association's Lloyd O'Neil Award for outstanding service to the Australian book industry.
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David Malouf was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008.
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David Malouf is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.