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This is an illuminating profile of the popular novelist and poet David Malouf, known for his best-selling books, Remembering Babylon, Johnno, 12 Edmondstone Street, The Great World, The Year of the Foxes, The Gold Coast, and An Imaginary Life. It interweaves the imagined world of Malouf's writing with the reality of places and experiences that have inspired him. Delving into his Lebanese and English heritage and his memories of growing up during WW II, the program uses a combination of interviews, dramatizations, archival footage and cinema verite sequences to explore the work of this complex man. It reveals a writer who looks closely into ordinary lives and events, finding something precious in them, giving those mundane moments meaning and making them into art.
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