David Malouf

David Malouf is an award-winning Australian writer whose book Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993.

It won the inaugural International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996 and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1996. Malouf was also awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000.

His epic novel, The Great World, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1991 and the French Prix Femina Etranger. Malouf has written poetry, fiction, essays and libretti and his most recent book, Every Move You Make was published in 2006. His new work of poetry, Typewriter Music, was published in 2007 by University of Queensland Press.

Contact: Barbara Mobbs (beemobbs@bigpond.net.au)