David Malouf enjoys a distinguished reputation, nationally and internationally, as a writer whose lyrical mappings of identity, place, and the body also bear upon questions of belonging and national identity. Crossing successfully from poetry to prose...
David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer . His 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize...
THE GREAT WORLD By David Malouf Pantheon, 330 pp., $22 "The Great World," the sixth novel of Australian David Malouf, reveals a writer with great imaginative powers and a gift for acute psychological characterization. Yet the book is a sometimes frustrating...
A state-appointed task force led by George S. Malouf Sr. recommended this month that Prince George's County relinquish ownership of its public hospital system to Dimensions Healthcare System. Dimensions, a financially troubled nonprofit corporation, runs the facilities, which include the 284-bed Prince George's Hospital...
[If] you are committed to literature and have written poems, which are shorter and do not require the persistent physical effort—among other efforts—that a novel does, then it may seem that a novel is next in the natural order of things. But a saving sophistication makes you wary of the thinly veiled autobiography. A decent camouflage of interests and themes is advisable. Instead of yourself, an acquaintance may serve as a focus. And if he is in the novel, then you yourself are naturally, even...
"How close to where I live lie the ultimate ends of the earth," Ovid wrote from Tomis, the semisavage Black Sea village to which he had been exiled by Augustus in A.D. 8. History is silent about the reason for the sudden banishment from Rome of its wittiest, gayest poet, last of the generation that included Virgil, Horace and Propertius. Ovid himself thought he was being punished for his writing. "My only fault is that I possess both talent and taste," he claimed in the "T...
The coupling of two so different novellas as ["Child's Play" and "The Bread of Time to Come"] seems peculiar at first: one concerns a young Australian's experiences just before and during the First World War; the other is an intensely inward first-person narration by a contemporary Italian terrorist. David Malouf, however, is a richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense; his terrorist is hardly the subject of a slick thriller. Though proba...
