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David Malouf


Born
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
March 20, 1934

Died
April 22, 2026

Genre
Literature & Fiction


David Malouf was a celebrated Australian poet, novelist, librettist, playwright, and essayist whose work had garnered international acclaim. Known for his lyrical prose and explorations of identity, memory, and place, Malouf began his literary career in poetry before gaining recognition for his fiction. His 1990 novel The Great World won the Miles Franklin Award and several other major prizes, while Remembering Babylon (1993) earned a Booker Prize nomination and multiple international honors.
Malouf had taught at universities in Australia and the UK, delivered the prestigious Boyer Lectures, and written libretti for acclaimed operas. Born in Brisbane to a Lebanese father and a mother of Sephardi Jewish heritage, he drew on both Australian an ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 25,048 ratings · 2,823 reviews · 84 distinct works • Similar authors
Ransom
3.70 avg rating — 5,471 ratings — published 2009 — 47 editions
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Remembering Babylon
3.49 avg rating — 3,925 ratings — published 1993 — 59 editions
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An Imaginary Life
3.88 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 1978 — 44 editions
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Fly Away Peter
3.42 avg rating — 2,050 ratings — published 1982 — 38 editions
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Johnno
3.76 avg rating — 1,603 ratings — published 1975 — 19 editions
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The Great World
3.87 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1989 — 35 editions
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The Conversations at Curlow...
3.63 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1996 — 35 editions
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Dream Stuff
3.66 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions
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Harland's Half Acre
3.75 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1984 — 26 editions
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12 Edmondstone Street
3.67 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions
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“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”
― David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
tags: life, self
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“Words his soul danced to.”
― David Malouf
tags: dance, literature, soul, words
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“Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.”
― David Malouf, An Imaginary Life
tags: identity, life, mask
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Polls

December 2023 New School Classics

Sula by Toni Morrison, 1973, 174 pages
 
  78 votes, 38.6%

A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene, 1936, 184 pages
 
  35 votes, 17.3%

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pages
 
  26 votes, 12.9%

 
  18 votes, 8.9%

 
  16 votes, 7.9%

The Great World by David Malouf, 1989, 336 pages
 
  16 votes, 7.9%

City Primeval by Elmore Leonard, 1980, 275 pages
 
  13 votes, 6.4%

202 total votes
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