David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. His 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon. was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Malouf was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to a Lebanese-Christian father and English-Jewish mother. 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 Aborigines; 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 the librettos 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). 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

• Johnno (1975)
• An Imaginary Life (1978)
• Fly Away Peter (1982)
• Harland's Half Acre (1984)
• The Great World (1990)
• Remembering Babylon (1993)
• Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996)
• Dream Stuff (short story collection - 2000)