On Experience

Australia's much-loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination-and its effects on the life of a writer-in this first instalment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this treasurable approach salvages a popular writer's inner philosophy from the disposability of journals and magazine columns for the sake of his fans and lovers of esoteric literature the world over.

DavidMalouf is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. He is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. His novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among other honours, in 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate, in 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2011 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.