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David Malouf is one of Australia’s most celebrated and awarded writers. David George Joseph Malouf was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1934. He undertook his secondary education at Brisbane Grammar School between the years of 1947 - 1950. He then attended the University of Queensland from 1951 – 1954. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English. He was then employed as a lecturer at the University of Queensland until 1957. From 1962 - 1968 he was employed as a teacher at St. Anselm's College in England. He then moved back to Australia to take up a lecturing position at the University of Sydney from 1968 - 1977. He currently lives in Australia.
The focus of Malouf's novel is a small section of Homer's Iliad, the epic poem that tracks the ten year war between the city of Troy (or Ilios) and the combined Greek city states. In the novel, Troy's King Priam travels to the enemy Greek encampment to beg the warrior Achilles to release the body of Hector. Hector is Priam’s son, whom Achilles killed in revenge for the death of his friend, Patroclus.
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