To celebrate the end of 2018, we've re-released our highest rating fiction interviews of the year: #2 is David Malouf.

David is an internationally recognised Australian writer. He has received the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Australian Literature Society Gold Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Booker International Prize, and in 2011 was a finalist in the Man Booker International Prize for services to literature.

His body of work is long and distinguished, and includes:

Johnno (1975)

An Imaginary Life (1978), awarded the NSW Premier’s Literary Award

Fly Away Peter (1982), awarded The Age Book of the Year

12 Edmonstone Street (1985)

The Great World (1990), awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award

Remembering Babylon (1993), awarded the inaugural International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award

The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award

The Complete Stories (2007)

Ransom (2009), shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award

The Writing Life (2014)

An Open Book (2018).

Read the complete transcript of our interview with David at thegarretpodcast.com.

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