Acclaimed Australian writer David Malouf has died aged 92.

The Brisbane-born Malouf – who authored Ransom, The Great World, Remembering Babylon and 12 Edmondstone Street, among numerous other titles – died on Wednesday night, The Age reports.

Born in 1934, he was brought up in Brisbane and collected numerous awards over his decades of writing – including the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000.

In 2008 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008.

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