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David Malouf has won numerous prizes for his work including the NSW Premier's Literary Award for An Imaginary Life (1979), The Age Book of the Year Award for Fly Away Peter (1982), the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Prize for fiction for The Great World (1991). Remembering Babylon won the NSW Premier's Literary Award in 1993, and was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. In June 1996, the novel was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
David Malouf, AO - Wednesday 11 April, 2007
Dr Ihab Hassan was born in Egypt and graduated in engineering with highest honors from the University of Cairo. In 1948 he earned his MS at the University of Pennsylvania. He then studied literature and earned an MA in 1950 and a PhD in 1953. Since 1970, he has been the Vilas Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has held visiting professorships in Sweden, Japan, Germany, France, and Austria - also at Yale, Trinity College, and the University of Washington.
Ihab Hassan - Wednesday 11 April, 2007