The
Catholic Weekly
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Sydney
19 October 2003
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Peace
in our hands
Jubilee
week for Pope
Special
guests at Mother Teresa’s beatification
School
insurance hike
Honoured
by university
It’s
truly feminine and truly beautiful
Spiritually
renewed by Lourdes
$1.75m
for Caritas
Catholic
Women’s Network
Board
short bonanza for Vinnies
Advice
to lectors, acolytes
Much
deeper reality
Editorial:
Time for tribute
Letters:
Barrel of a gun
Conversation:
Terry Hanley, lay missionary who has spent nearly 15 years in the field - Happy
to ‘spend rest of my life in Africa’
What
is peace like?
Religion
test upsurge
Malouf
on campus
Ministry
of Jesus to the sick and dying
‘Father,
this is your life’
‘Priest
in residence’ honoured
Bushland
setting for Thurgoona church
Full-on
disciple of Jesus
Active
practice of faith
Requiem
Mass for ‘Bacon Priest’
Malouf on campus
David Malouf (left) and Michael Griffith
Michael Griffith, associate professor at the Australian Catholic University (ACU National), says he was “very privileged” to have been taught by David Malouf when he was a student at the University of Sydney 30 years ago.
But he would never have envisaged then that in 2003 he would asking the award-winning novelist, playwright and opera librettist “to speak to students of mine at ACU National”.
“I was delighted he could come and speak with our students and hope that all who attended his talk will continue to be inspired by his works now they have had the opportunity to meet him,” Michael said.
David, author of the novels Remembering Babylon, An Imaginary Life and The Conversations at Curlow Creek, spoke to and answered questions from first-year Australian literature students at the university’s Strathfield Campus (Mt Saint Mary).
He focused on his style of writing and answered students’ questions about his novels, particularly Remembering Babylon which raises fundamental questions about the prospects for reconciliation in Australia.
Remembering Babylon, published in 1993, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It has won numerous awards.
David Malouf, born in Brisbane in 1934 to a Lebanese-Christian father and English-Jewish mother, graduated from the University of Queensland in 1955.
He taught at a comprehensive school in London (1959-68) before returning to Sydney to lecture in English at Sydney University.
He became a full-time writer in 1978 and now divides his time between Australia and southern Tuscany, Italy.
Associate Professor Michael Griffith has taught at ACU National for more than 25 years.
For details on courses at ACU National, visit www.acu.edu.au