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David Malouf

デイヴィッド・マルーフ

David Malouf

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1934-03-20 （Brisbane, Queensland, Australia）
国籍
Australia
言語
English
居住地歴
England (London, Birkenhead etc.) → Tuscany, Italy (residence) → Sydney, Australia (long-term residence) → Queensland, Australia (current residence)

経歴

職業
novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, librettist
活動期間
1962年〜
所属
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
所属団体
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
影響を受けた人物
Patrick White
影響を与えた人物
ノミネート
1993 Booker Prize (shortlist) — Remembering Babylon, 2011 International Dublin Literary Award (shortlist) — Ransom, 2011 International Booker Prize (shortlist)

学歴

University of Queensland
English
学位: B.A.
期間: 1950年代（在学〜卒業）
卒業年: 1955
国: Australia
Graduated B.A. in 1955. Later awarded an honorary doctorate from the University (1991).

受賞歴

Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
1974
対象作品: Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
主催: Grace Leven Prize
結果: Winner
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
1974
対象作品: Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems
主催: Australian Literature Society
結果: Winner
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
1979
対象作品: An Imaginary Life
部門: Fiction
主催: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
結果: Winner
Miles Franklin Award
1991
対象作品: The Great World
主催: Miles Franklin Award
結果: Winner
Prix Femina Étranger
1991
対象作品: The Great World
部門: Étranger (Foreign)
主催: Prix Femina
結果: Winner
Prix Femina Étranger
1994
対象作品: Remembering Babylon
部門: Étranger (Foreign)
主催: Prix Femina
結果: Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
1994
対象作品: Remembering Babylon
部門: Fiction
主催: Los Angeles Times
結果: Winner
International Dublin Literary Award
1996
対象作品: Remembering Babylon
主催: International Dublin Literary Award
結果: Winner
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
2000
主催: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
結果: Winner
Australia-Asia Literary Award
2008
対象作品: The Complete Stories
主催: Australia-Asia Literary Award
結果: Winner
Australia Council Award (Lifetime Achievement)
2016
部門: Lifetime Achievement in Literature
主催: Australia Council
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Johnno

1975年 Novel (semi-autobiographical)

A semi-autobiographical novel about a young man growing up in wartime Brisbane; explores friendship, class contrasts and youthful transgressions.

coming of agemale identitymemory
映像化・舞台化
  • [Stage] Johnno (stage adaptation) / La Boite Theatre (adaptation, 2006) (2006)

An Imaginary Life

1978年 Novel (historical fiction)

A short novel about the later years of the poet Ovid, exploring language, culture and solitude.

languageothernesssolitude

Fly Away Peter

1982年 Novella (set around World War I)

A novella about three acquaintances and their experiences of World War I; contrasts nature with the realities of war.

warnaturefriendship

The Great World

1990年 Novel (historical/epic)

An epic novel tracing the relationship of two Australians through the upheavals of two World Wars, including imprisonment by the Japanese in WWII.

war and humanityfriendshipmemory and survival

Remembering Babylon

1993年 Novel (colonial-era community novel)

Set in northern Australia in the 1850s, it tells of a young white man raised by Indigenous Australians whose arrival unsettles an isolated community of immigrant farmers.

othering and belongingcultural collisionidentity

Ransom

2009年 Novel (reimagining of classical myth)

A reimagining of a scene from Homer's Iliad, focusing on ransom, gift and the human acts of mercy around a bereaved father.

language and reconciliationhuman compassionmythic reworking

全著作

  • Bicycle and Other Poems (1970)
  • Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems (1974)
  • Johnno (1975)
  • An Imaginary Life (1978)
  • Fly Away Peter (1982)
  • The Great World (1990)
  • Remembering Babylon (1993)
  • The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996)
  • Ransom (2009)
  • The Complete Stories (2007)

翻案

  • Voss (opera libretto)
  • Johnno (stage adaptation, 2006)

作風・主題

文体
lyrical yet realist proseprecise handling of spatial relationspoetic rhythm combined with polished prose
頻出モチーフ
origin and identitymemory and reappraisal of the pastsense of land and placeinterior examinations of masculinity

評価・遺産

David Malouf is one of Australia's foremost writers from the late 20th to early 21st century, internationally recognized across poetry, fiction, drama and libretti. His contributions—especially in spatial depiction and interiority—have had lasting significance in contemporary literature.

関連学会

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  • Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

資料所蔵先

  • University of Queensland Library (manuscripts and archives)

引用

  • “The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives.”
    出典: Interview/essay (summarized on Wikipedia)

豆知識

  • His father was a Lebanese Christian and his mother of Sephardi Jewish descent.
  • He is openly gay.
  • Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993.
  • He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).
  • Recipient of international prizes including the Neustadt International Prize (2000).