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David Malouf

Author

Writing for over 40-years, David Malouf has been an influential voice in the Australian literary landscape, dealing with varied subject matter, including Australian identity, masculinity and homosexuality.

Malouf's career has spanned stories, novels, librettos and autobiographical writing. At the age of 41, Malouf's first novel, ‘Johnno’, dealt with the repressed relationship between two Australian men in the 1950s. "I've spent years writing letters to you and you never answer, even when you write back," says Johnno in the text. "I've loved you - and you've never given a fuck for me, except as a character in one of your funny stories. Now for Christ sake write to me!"

Malouf does not often write explicitly of gay relationships, but with subtlety explores the intricacies of male-to-male bonds. In 2009 Malouf published his first novel in over a decade – ‘Ransom’. The book revisited Homer's Iliad, focusing on the unbreakable bonds between men - Priam and Hector, Patroclus and Achilles, Priam and the cart-driver hired to retrieve Hector's body. ‘Ransom’ was shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award and the Qld Premier’s Literary Award.

Malouf won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, and his 1993 novel, ‘Remembering Babylon’ won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1996), and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ‘The Great World’ was awarded winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ and Miles Franklin Prizes in 1990