International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award

Set in the middle of the nineteenth century, in colonial Australia, Remembering Babylon tells the story of a white man, Gemmy Fairley, who has lived with the aborigines for sixteen years. He stumbles onto a family of white settlers and is taken into their community. In this wonderfully lyrical novel, David Malouf deals with issues of identity, cultural difference, and colonialism, through telling the stories of Gemmy, the family who take him in, and the settler society and its distrust of a white man who is not a white man.

The 1996 Award Winner
David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1934. His first published work was Interiors (Four Poets, 1962) and he has since published eight collections of poetry, a play, libretti, eight novels, and a volume of autobiography. He became a full-time writer in 1978 and has been awarded the Prix Femina Etranger, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the inaugural Pascall Prize. His The Conversations at Curlow Creek was published by Chatto & Windus in 1996. David Malouf (right) was presented with the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award on the eve of Bloomsday, 15th June 1996, at Dublin Castle.
Remembering Babylon (1993)
Set in the middle of the nineteenth century, in colonial Australia, Remembering Babylon tells the story of a white man, Gemmy Fairley, who has lived with the aborigines for sixteen years. He stumbles onto a family of white settlers and is taken into their community. In this wonderfully lyrical novel, David Malouf deals with issues of identity, cultural difference, and colonialism, through telling the stories of Gemmy, the family who take him in, and the settler society and its distrust of a white man who is not a white man.
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