Murray Bail

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Murray Bail (born September 22, 1941 in Adelaide ) is an Australian writer . He lives in Sydney .

His best-known novel is Eucalyptus from 1998 , for which he received various awards a year later, including the Miles Franklin Award , the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the ALS Gold Medal .

A portrait of Murray Bail by artist Fred Williams is owned by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra but is not currently on display.

Works

  • Homesickness (1980)
  • Holden's Performance (1987)
  • Eucalyptus (Roman, 1998; German translation Eucalyptus , 1999, Berlin Verlag )
  • Pages (2008)
  • The Voyage (2012; German Die Reise , translated by Nikolaus Hansen, Dörlemann, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-03820-042-0 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Portrait Gallery [1]
personal data
SURNAME Bail, Murray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide