Being There

Being There
ISBN: 9780857987228
Publication Date: 1 March 2016

Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life.

After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in

A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in

The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There.

With pieces on the Sydney Opera House - then and now - responses to art, artists and architects, and including Malouf's not previously published libretti for Voss and a translation of Hippolytus, this is an unmissable and stimulating collection of one man's connection to the world of art, ideas and culture.

About the Author

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.