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Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf











Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

His first novel, Johnno, a semi-autobiographical novel about boyhood in Brisbane, was published in 1975 and later adapted for theater in 2004. In 1968, Malouf returned to his home country, lecturing for another ten years at the University of Sydney before becoming a full-time writer in 1978. He studied at University of Queensland, which he graduated from in 1955, and became a lecturer, working first in Australia before relocating to London to teach at Holland Park and later Birkenhead.

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Malouf was a prolific reader as a child, absorbing such sophisticated classics as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights by age 12. David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934, one of two children to a Lebanese father and an English-Jewish mother.













Remembering Babylon by David Malouf