David Malouf

David Malouf is one of Australia's most popular novelists, and also one of its most elusive. Drawing on the whole range of his work - fiction, poetry, essays, his plays and his libretti - Ivor Indyk presents Malouf as both a primitive and a romantic, a writer who draws deeply on the rhythms of nature in his expression of dark desires which go largely unrecognised in the social domain.