His Ransom, 2009 t.p. (David Malouf) dust jacket (David Malouf was born in 1934 in Brisbane, and now lives in Sydney. In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts Council Muriel Spark International Fellow)
Wikipedia website, viewed on 29 May 2019 (David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2016, he received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, David Malouf was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artists") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf
