David Malouf
Autore di Remembering Babylon
Sull'Autore
David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia on March 20, 1934. He received a B.A. with honours from the University of Queensland in 1954. He lived and worked in Europe from 1959 to 1968, then taught English at the University of Sydney until 1977. After 1977 he became a full-time poet and novelist. mostra altro His collections of poetry include Bicycle and Other Poems, Neighbours in a Thicket, Wild Lemons, First Things Last, Typewriter Music, and An Open Book. He received the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Earth Hour. His novels include Johnno, Ransom, An Imaginary Life, Child's Play, Fly Away Peter, Harland's Half Acre, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make, and The Conversations at Curlow Creek. He received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger for The Great World and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Remembering Babylon. His collections of short stories include Antipodes, Untold Tales, Dream Stuff, and Every Move You Make. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His essays collections include A First Place and The Writing Life. He also wrote the libretto for Richard Meale's opera Voss. He won the 2016 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di David Malouf
David Malouf: Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays & Interviews (Uqp Australian Authors) (1990) 10 copie
Waterfront 4 copie
Such is Life 2 copie
Four Poets 2 copie
The Young Desire It 1 copia
Guide to the perplexed 1 copia
Sky News 1 copia
Southern Skies {short story} 1 copia
REGATE 1 copia
Opere correlate
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Collaboratore — 301 copie
Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under (1993) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Facing Writers : Australia's Leading Writers Talk with Dagmar Strauss (1990) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Stories from Down Under : nine short stories from Australia and New Zealand — Autore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Malouf, George Joseph David
- Data di nascita
- 1934
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australië
- Luogo di nascita
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australië
- Luogo di residenza
- Chippendale, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Tuscany, Italy - Istruzione
- Brisbane Grammar School
University of Queensland - Attività lavorative
- poet
lecturer
novelist
essayist
short-story writer - Relazioni
- Phillips, Jill (sister)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2000)
Lannan Literary Award ( [2000])
Australian Living Treasure
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)
Pascall Prize (1988) - Agente
- Deborah Rogers (Rogers, Coleridge & White)
- Breve biografia
- Malouf werd in 1934 geboren als kind van een Libanese vader en een Engels-joodse moeder. Hij leeft afwisselend in Australië en Italië.
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read, April 2018: Remembering Babylon in 1001 Books to read before you die (Aprile 2018)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 62
- Opere correlate
- 29
- Utenti
- 5,329
- Popolarità
- #4,671
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 152
- ISBN
- 290
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 21
Malouf smartly chooses not to write from the Indigenous perspective - he has rightly said that no white person in Australia can really do that - but gives us enough touches through Gemmy's point of view that we understand the true tragedy of colonialism, as symbolised through Janet's relationship with her bees. Being able to see them communicate but not quite understand how, and wondering if you knew it once, is a thought that has often haunted me, and remains haunting.
By 1860, my ancestors were well settled in Australia, their children becoming young adults and soon to have children of their own. My relationship with this land - as a white, rural-born, gay, intellectual, urbanite - is a complex one, and so is my relationship with the attempted genocide my ancestors perpetuated. Although the killing ended long ago, the cultural suppression continued well into the 1960s - the decade of my parents' birth - and we live with a lineage of divided privilege, culture, and sentiment. Compared to our neighbours "across the pond", New Zealand, who charted a very different 19th century, it is very telling.
To return to Malouf's work, his prose is tight, almost silhouetting the situations that occur, using the characters' summations of moments and often sidestepping detail, to leave us caught in the shadow between the people involved. It's a strange, sometimes surprisingly synopsis-like approach to writing, and yet it somehow produces a staggering effect. This is a quintessential Australian novel, one that examines our tortured history without unfairly chastising. The relationship between white and black is one key theme, but so is the relationship between home and away. Even now in 2018, the so-called "cultural cringe" remains strong in Australia. We have a fractious relationship with the UK, and within ourselves about the UK - the proximity to "the world", the lengthy history and culture, the feeling that we have been distanced from so much cultural understanding through the fault of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. We often discuss this in the context of Australia's newer migrant families, but I can attest it remains strong in an eighth-generation Australian like myself. To peer into the minds of people who themselves remember the mother country, or - even worse - have heard it from everyone around them but are themselves inexperienced, is a gift in the hands of Malouf.
Perhaps this is a work about questions, not about answers. The answers are for us to find - if, indeed, we ever can.… (altro)