David Foster (novelist)

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David Foster (born 1944) is a contemporary Australian novelist.

David Foster was born in Katoomba, New South Wales and grew up in the Blue Mountains. He studied science at University of Sydney and took a doctorate from Australian National University. He has worked as a research scientist, truck driver, postie and on a prawn trawler as well as writing. The subjects of his novels range from rock music to ancient mythology, with some characters like D'Arcy D'Oliveres the comic post-man of several novels taking something his previous employment. He has been a University of New South Wales Literary Fellow and among his many accolades The Glade Within the Grove won the 1997 Miles Franklin Award (as well as being translated into German) and In the New Country won the 1999 Courier Mail Book of the Year.

[edit] Works

Novels

• North South West (1973) [3 novellas]
• The Pure Land(1974)
• Moonlite (1981)
• Plumbum (1983)
• Dog Rock: A Postal Pastoral (1985)
• The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross (1986)
• Testostero (1987)
• The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover (1988)
• Hitting the Wall (Penguin, 1989) [2 novellas]
• Mates of Mars (Penguin, 1991)
• The Glade Within the Grove (Random House, 1996)
• In the New Country (Fourth Estate, 1999) ISBN 1-84115-037-1
• The Land where Stories End (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002) ISBN 1-875989-88-9

Poetry

• The Fleeing Atalanta
• The Ballad of Erinungarah (Vintage: 1997)

Non-fiction

• Studs and Nogs: Essays 1987-98 (Vintage, 1999)
• A Year of Slow Food with Gerda Foster (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002)

[edit] External links

• Brief Biography & about some of the novels
• David Foster discusses The Land where Stories End

[edit] References

• Guide to the Papers of David Foster at The Australian Defence Force Academy Library

Persondata
NAME	Foster, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH