Notes from David Malouf interview, London, Circa 1984.

These are written out notes from a David Malouf interview, London, Circa 1984.
I have been unable to locate the story, which was published in The Australian Financial Review.
It was the first time I had met him and we promptly became friends.
There is a scene at his kitchen table in London in the memoir Hunting the Famous.
This interview was for his book Harland's Half Acre, which seems to have promptly disappeared from the canon. It was a very interesting work, a kind of meditation on Australia.
At this point Patrick White was still alive and David was yet to take on the mantle of Australia's greatest living writer.
His work ethic, charm and kindness were always an inspiration.
A highly intelligent and erudite man, he also, as a former school teacher, has a kind of functioning humility about him which endears him to everybody high and low.
He is always ready to pass on what he knew, and has always been supportive of other writers, including myself.
David is now in his eighties (as of 2017), and continues to keep up a strict work regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf

David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.^[1] In 2016, he received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.^[2]

In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, David Malouf was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an "Influential Artists".^[3]