DAVID MALOUF CHRONOLOGY.

CLARK, DAVID DRAPER

1934 David Malouf born on 20 March in Brisbane of Lebanese and English parents.

1954 Graduates from University of Queensland.

1955 Junior Lecturer in English at University of Queensland.

1962 Is published in Four Poets, along with Judith Green, Rodney Hall, and Don Maynard.

1963-68 English Master at St. Anselm's College, Birkenhead (U.K.).

1968-78 Senior Tutor, then Lecturer, in English Department at University of Sydney, New South Wales.

1970 Publishes first volume of poetry, Bicycle and Other Poems, in Australia (appears as The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems in the U.S. in 2979).

1974 Verse collection Neighbours in a Thicket is awarded the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.

1975 Publishes first novel, Johnno (released in the U.S. in 2979).

1978 Second novel, An Imaginary Life, published in both the U.S. (Braziller) and the U.K. (Chatto & Windus).

1979 An Imaginary Life garners the New South Wales Premier's Prize.

1982 Poetry volumes First Things Last and Selected Poems.

1982 Publishes novella Child's Play, along with Eustace and The Prowler. Novella Fly Away Peter (issued in U.S. as The Bread of Time to Come), set in Queensland before World War I, wins the Age Book of the Year Award and, with Child's Play, the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal.

1984 Releases novel Harland's Half Acre.

1985 Short-story collection Antipodes receives the Victoria Premier's Prize.

1986 Publishes 12 Edmondstone Street and completes libretto for Richard Meale's opera Voss, based on the novel by Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White. Voss premiers at the Australian Opera.

1987 Play Blood Relations is named winner of the New South Wales Premier's Prize.

1990 Publishes novel The Great World (awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Miles Franklin Award, and the Prix Femina Etranger) and writes libretto for Meale's Mer de Glace, which premieres at the Australian Opera.

1993 Novel Remembering Babylon is named by Time as one of the best books of the year, is shortlisted for England's Booker Prize, wins the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and becomes the first recipient of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Publishes opera libretto Baa Baa Black Sheep.

1994 Issues Selected Poems, 1959-89.

1996 Novel The Conversations at Curlow Creek.

1998 Publishes A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness.

1999 Short-story collection Untold Tales.

2000 Selected as sixteenth Neustadt Prize laureate (March). Publishes short-story collection Dream Stuff. Awarded Neustadt International Prize for Literature at the University of Oklahoma (October). Autumn issue of World Literature Today dedicated to Malouf and his work (December). Wins Lannan Literary Award for fiction. Publishes opera libretto Jane Eyre.