Murray Bail was born on 22 September 1941 and is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.
13 Facts About Murray Bail
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Murray Bail was born in Adelaide, South Australia, a son of Cyril Lindsay Bail.
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Murray Bail has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India and England and Europe.
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Murray Bail was trustee of the National Gallery of Australia from 1976 to 1981 and wrote a book on Australian artist Ian Fairweather.
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The portrait was done while both Williams and Murray Bail were Council members of the National Gallery of Australia.
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Murray Bail is most well known for Eucalyptus, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999.
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Murray Bail's other work includes the novels Homesickness, which was a joint winner of The Age Book of the Year in 1980, and Holden's Performance, another award-winner.
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Laurie Clancy suggests that Murray Bail is, with Peter Carey and Frank Moorhouse, one of the chief innovators in Australian short story writing, and that he was part of its revival in the 1970s.
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Murray Bail's father worked in the tramways and his mother was a homemaker.
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Murray Bail started working in advertising agencies in Adelaide and Melbourne.
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Murray Bail contracted amoebic dysentery on his travels, and went to London for treatment at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
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Murray Bail remained in London for five years, the first year on the dole, before returning to Australia in 1975.
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Murray Bail was first married in 1965, and divorced in 1988.