Murray Bail

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Murray Bail is a writer born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1941.

He is most well known for his novel Eucalyptus that won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999.

His other work includes the novels Homesickness and Holden's Performance, short story collections The Drover's Wife and Camouflage, an art history on Ian Fairweather, Longhand: A Writer's Notebook and Notebooks 1970-2003.

Reviewers recently compared Bail's Notebooks 1970-2003 with Proust, Gide and Valery's.