Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novels are The Pages (2008) and The Voyage (2012).
'One of the most remarkable of the generation of Australian fiction writers that includes Peter Carey and came to first maturity 25 or so years ago.' * Age * 'Few writers anywhere in the world can match [Bail] for stylistic daring.' * Irish Examiner * 'One of Australia's most original and imaginative writers.' * Canberra Times * 'As a storyteller, Bail cannot put a foot wrong.' -- Signature 'Bail writes like an angel.' -- Bulletin 'Murray Bail ranks as one of three indisputably world-class Australian novelists now practicing.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'He. is a record of observing...Observation, rather than interaction, is His approach to the world...The images and memories break out in a disorderly jostle. But they are the memories He keeps...There is so much that is pleasurable in He.-the apercus, the aphorisms, the vignettes of time and place.' * Australian Book Review *