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David Malouf

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in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

March 20, 1934

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David Malouf is a celebrated Australian poet, novelist, librettist, playwright, and essayist whose work has 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 has 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 draws on both Australian an ...more

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	Ransom 3.70 avg rating — 5,076 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering Babylon 3.48 avg rating — 3,675 ratings — published 1993 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Imaginary Life 3.87 avg rating — 2,592 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fly Away Peter 3.41 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 1982 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Johnno 3.74 avg rating — 1,435 ratings — published 1975 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great World 3.88 avg rating — 808 ratings — published 1989 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	12 Edmondstone Street 3.65 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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December 2023 New School Classics

Sula by Toni Morrison, 1973, 174 pages

80 votes, 39.2%

A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene, 1936, 184 pages

35 votes, 17.2%

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 1903, 315 pages

26 votes, 12.7%

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, 1995, 499 pages

18 votes, 8.8%

South Moon Under by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1933, 260 pages

16 votes, 7.8%

The Great World by David Malouf, 1989, 336 pages

16 votes, 7.8%

City Primeval by Elmore Leonard, 1980, 275 pages

13 votes, 6.4%

204 total votes

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