Origins & Early Life

David George Joseph Malouf (, mə-LOOF; 20 March 1934 – 22 April 2026) was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London in 2008, Malouf 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.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

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 was mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Malouf was born on 20 March 1934 in Brisbane, Australia, to a Lebanese Christian...

Enduring Legacy & Impact

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