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  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273790
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $26.99

Antipodes



The striking debut by David Malouf, now one of the most criticallly acclaimed and popular authors in Australian literature.

Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction.

Antipodes is a stunning collection of stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself. . .

This debut collection from David Malouf, now one of Australia's most highly acclaimed and popular authors, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Vance Palmer Award and established Malouf's reputation as one of the great writers of contemporary Australian fiction.

  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273790
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

David Malouf

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His most recent books are A First Place and The Writing Life. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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Praise for Antipodes

Meticulous... precise... often very beautiful

The Times

Extraordinary and compelling

Observer

David Malouf is a fine writer

Sunday Telegraph