David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1934. His mother was an English Jew, and his father was a Christian from Lebanon. His parents raised him and his sister Jill in Australia. In 1955, he graduated from the University of Queensland. He writes both poetry and prose, which includes novels and short stories. He is a prolific writer, and some of his best-known works include The Great World and Remembering Babylon, and, more recently, Ransom. He is the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Prix Fémina Étranger, and he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2011. He has lived in Australia, England, and Tuscany.
Dream Stuff is an anthology of 9 short stories written by David Malouf. It was first published in Australia by Chatto and Windus in 2000. An edition for the United States was also released by Vintage books in 2001.
In the anthology, Malouf tackles...
Fly Away Peter is a book written by David Malouf in 1982. The book mainly revolves around the story of Jim Saddler who has an advanced understanding of the bird life of an estuary near his home. A man called Ashley Crowther inherits the farm which...
David Malouf's Ransom (2009) is a profound novel of immense suffering, sorrow, and redemption.
It retells the story of Homer's Iliad from books 22 to 24. While the Iliad covers the entirety of the last year of the Trojan War, a famous conflict in...
Written in 1993 by David Malouf, an Australian writer, Remembering Babylon is a novel that centers around an English boy, Gemmy Fairley, who is stranded on an island and raised by the island's natives. It was critically acclaimed, winning the...
