biography
pronunciation:
[maloof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. He studied at Queensland University, teaching there and at Sydney. Previously concentrating on poetry, his first novel was Johnno (1975). He became a full-time writer in 1978, and in 1979 was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for An Imaginary Life (1978). Other novels include Fly Away Peter (1982), Harland's Half Acre (1984), The Great World (1991, Miles Franklin Award), Remembering Babylon (1993), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the 1996 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Conversation at Curlow Creek (1997), and Dream Stuff (2000). |
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