David Malouf

David Malouf was born in Queensland in 1934. In the 1880s, his father’s family came to Australia from Lebanon and just before WWI his mother’s came from London. He received an eduaction at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland. After graduating, he taught there for two years. He moved to Britain from 1959-68, aged twenty-four, where he taught in London and Birkenhead. He then returned where he tauught English at the Univeristy of Sydney.

Malouf had won a series of prizes, such as the NSW Premier’s Literary Award in 1979, The Age Book of the Year Award in 1982, the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Prize for fiction, both in 1991. In 1993, he won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994. He was also awarded with the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, in June 1996.

The Conversations at Curlow Creek, his most recent novel, was nominated for the 1996 Age Bookof the Year Award and the Miles Franklin Award in 1997.

He now is a full-time write and spends part of the year in Australia and the other part in Tuscany, Italy.

Sources:

David Malouf, 2003. Retrieved: March 9, 2011, from

http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/maloufd/maloufd.html