David Malouf

1934 -

Country of citizenship: Australia

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: University of Queensland, Brisbane Grammar School

Occupation: writer, novelist, poet, librettist, playwright, short story writer

Award received: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Prix Femina étranger, Miles Franklin Literary Award, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Australian National Living Treasure, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, honorary doctor of the University of Sydney, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

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David George Joseph Malouf (mah-LOOF; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. He also delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures. Malouf's 1974 collection Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. His 1990 novel The Great World won numerous awards, including the 1991 Miles Franklin Award and Prix Femina Étranger His 1993 novel Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the 1994 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the 1995 Prix Baudelaire and the 1996 International Dublin Literary Award. 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. He has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Source: Wikipedia (en)