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David Malouf

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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer David George Joseph Malouf Template:Post-nominals<ref name="Alumni UQ"/> (Template:Respell;<ref name="eNotes"/> 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 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, to a Christian Lebanese father and an English-born mother of Sephardi Jewish descent. His paternal family had immigrated from Lebanon in the 1880s, while his mother's family had moved to England via the Netherlands, before migrating to Australia in 1913.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He attended Brisbane Grammar School and graduated from the University of Queensland with a B.A. degree in 1955.<ref name="Alumni UQ"/> He lectured for a short period before moving to London, where he taught at Holland Park School, before relocating to Birkenhead in 1962.<ref>Template:British council</ref> He returned to Australia in 1968, taught at his old school,<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008">Gilling, Tom, "David Malouf: Writer", The Weekend Australian Magazine, 2–3 August 2008, p. 28</ref> and lectured in English at the Universities of Queensland and Sydney.<ref name="Middlemiss"/>

Personal lifeEdit

Malouf is gay.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He has lived in England and Tuscany, and for three decades spent most of his time in Sydney.<ref name="Middlemiss" /> Malouf now lives in Queensland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

WritingEdit

Though he would later become known abroad for his prose works, Malouf initially concentrated on poetry.<ref name="eNotes"/><ref name="British Council"/> His first work appeared in 1962, as part of a book he shared with three more Australian poets.<ref name="eNotes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His collection Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems (1974) features childhood memories, his mother, his sister, travelling in Europe and war.<ref name="British Council"/>

1992 brought the publication of Poems, 1959–1989.<ref name="eNotes"/> Some of his poetry was also collected in Revolving Days: Selected Poems (2008), which is divided into four sections: on childhood, then Europe, then relocating to Sydney, then travelling between Europe and Australia.<ref name="British Council"/>

Malouf's first novel, Johnno (1975), is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young man growing up in Brisbane during the Second World War.<ref name=SingaporeUniversity>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Johnno engages in shoplifting and goes to brothels, which contrasts with his friend Dante's middle-class conservatism.<ref name="British Council"/> La Boite Theatre adapted it for stage in 2006.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Malouf began writing full-time in 1977.<ref name="Alumni UQ"/>

An Imaginary Life (1978) is about the final years of Ovid.<ref name="British Council"/>

Malouf's 1982 novella about three acquaintances and their experience of the First World War was titled Fly Away Peter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His epic novel The Great World (1990) tells the story of two Australians and their relationship amid the turmoil of two World Wars, including imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II.<ref name=SingaporeUniversity/>

His Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Remembering Babylon (1993) is set in northern Australia during the 1850s amid a community of English immigrant farmers (with one Scottish family) whose isolated existence is threatened by the arrival of a stranger, a young white man raised from boyhood by Indigenous Australians.<ref name="British Council"/>

Malouf has written several collections of short stories, and a play, Blood Relations (1988).<ref name="Middlemiss"/> Australian critic Peter Craven described Malouf's 2006 short-story collection Every Move You Make as "as formidable and bewitching a collection of stories as you would be likely to find anywhere in the English-speaking world".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/> Craven went on to state that "No one else in this country has: the maintenance of tone, the expertness of prose, the easeful transition between lyrical and realist effects. The man is a master, a superb writer, and also (which is not the same thing) a completely sophisticated literary gent".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/> The Complete Stories appeared in 2007.<ref name="British Council"/>

Malouf has also written libretti for three operas (including Voss, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Patrick White and first produced in the 1986 Adelaide Festival of Arts conducted by Stuart Challender), and Baa Baa Black Sheep (with music by Michael Berkeley), which combines a semi-autobiographical story by Rudyard Kipling with Kipling's Jungle Books.<ref name="Middlemiss"/>

Malouf published his memoir, titled 12 Edmondstone Street, in 1985.<ref name=SingaporeUniversity/>

LecturingEdit

Malouf delivered the 1998 Boyer Lectures on ABC Radio.<ref name="Middlemiss"/>

Themes and subject matterEdit

Malouf's work tends to be set in Australia, though "a European sensibility" is also present.<ref name="eNotes"/>

His writing is characterised by a heightened sense of spatial relations, from the physical environments into which he takes his readers—whether within or outside built spaces, or in a natural landscape. He 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. "At a certain point, you begin to see what the connections are between things, and you begin to know what space it is you are exploring."<ref>Template:YouTube, accessed 30 August 2009.</ref> From his first novel Johnno onwards, his themes focused on "male identity and soul-searching".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/> He said that much of the male writing that preceded him "was about the world of action. I don't think that was ever an accurate description of men's lives".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/> He identified Patrick White as the writer who turned this around in Australian literature—that White's writing was the kind "that goes behind inarticulacy and or unwillingness to speak, writing that gives the language of feeling to people who don't have it themselves".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/>

Malouf also said that "I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives".<ref name="Tom Gilling 2008"/> However, after nearly four decades of writing, he concluded that in older writers can sometimes be found "a fading of the intensity of the imagination, and ... of the interest in the tiny details of life and behaviour—you see [writers] getting a bit impatient with that."<ref>Template:YouTube, accessed 30 August 2009.</ref>

Awards and honoursEdit

As well as his numerous accolades for fiction, Malouf was awarded the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in 1988.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2008, Malouf won the Australian Publishers Association's Lloyd O'Neil Award for outstanding service to the Australian book industry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<ref name="Alumni UQ"/>

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Selected bibliographyEdit

NovelsEdit

NovellaEdit

Short story collectionsEdit

  • Child's Play (1982)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Antipodes (1985)
  • Untold Tales (1999)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Dream Stuff (2000)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Every Move You Make (2006)
  • The Complete Stories (2007)<ref name="British Council"/>

Poetry collectionsEdit

  • Bicycle and Other Poems (1970)
  • Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems (1974)
  • Poems 1975–76 (1976)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • First Things Last (1980)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Wild Lemons: Poems (1980)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Selected Poems 1959–1989 (1992)<ref name="eNotes"/>
  • Guide to the Perplexed and Other Poems (chapbook: Warners Bay, New South Wales: Picaro Press, 2007, 16pp)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Typewriter Music (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, 82pp)<ref name="Martin Duwell 2007">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Revolving Days: Selected Poems (2008)<ref name="British Council"/>
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  • An Open Book (2018), University of Queensland Press, Template:ISBN

Non-fictionEdit

  • 12 Edmondstone St (memoir – 1985)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • "A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness", Boyer Lectures (1998)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Made in England: Australia's British inheritance (Quarterly Essay, Black Inc – QE12 – November 2003)<ref>Template:Cite work</ref>
  • On Experience (Little Books on Big Themes – 2008)<ref name="British Council"/>
  • "The Happy Life" (Quarterly Essay, Black Inc – 2011)<ref name="British Council"/>
  • The Writing Life: Book 2 (2014) Template:ISBN

PlaysEdit

LibrettiEdit

  • Voss (1986, music: Richard Meale)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Mer de glace (1991, music: Richard Meale)<ref name="Middlemiss"/>
  • Baa Baa Black Sheep (1993)<ref name="British Council"/>
  • Jane Eyre (2000)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

  • Giffuni, Cathe. "The Prose of David Malouf", Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, No. 7, June 1992.
  • James, Clive. "A Memory called Malouf" New York Review, 21 December 2000.

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