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Malouf is a Lebanese Australian born in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia , the son of a Lebanese-Christian father and an English-Jewish mother of Portuguese descent. He graduated from the University Of Queensland in 1955, and has lived in England; Tuscany, Italy; and Sydney (lecturing at the University Of Sydney ). His first novel, ''Johnno'' (1975), is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young man growing up in Brisbane during the World War II. His epic novel ''The Great World'' (1990) tells the story of two Australians and their relationship amid the turmoil of two World Wars, including imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II; the novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the French Prix Fémina Etranger. His Booker Prize -shortlisted novel ''Remembering Babylon'' (1993) is set in northern Australia during the 1850s amid a community of Scottish immigrant farmers whose isolated existence is threatened by the arrival of a stranger, a young white boy raised by Indigenous Australians ; the novel won the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book). In addition, Malouf has written libretti for 3 operas (including ''Voss'', an adaptation of the novel by Patrick White and first produced in Sydney in 1986), and ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'' (with music by Michael Berkeley), which combines a semi-autobiographical story by Rudyard Kipling with Kipling's Jungle Books . He has written several volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a play, '''Blood Relations'' (1988). His memoirs, ''12 Edmondstone Street'', were published in 1985. BOOKS
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