David Malouf was born on the 20th of March 1934 in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. One can draw interesting parallels between his birth details and the lives of his characters. In his novella, An Imaginary Life(1978), which is a fictionalized account of the Roman poet Ovid in exile, the protagonist declares, “I am the poet Ovid- born on the cusp between two houses of the zodiac, where the Fishes, tugging in their opposite directions, plunge below the horizon, and the Ram ascends; between two cycles of time, the millennium of the old gods, that shudders to its end, and a new era that will come to its crisis at some far point in the future” (11). What is noteworthy here is that records show Ovid’s birthday as 20th of March 44 B.C. Thus Malouf has selected a personality with whom he shares his birthday to invest his creativity around. Another similarity being that both lived at the confluence of two millenniums, a period of turbulence. Ovid’s life was centered around Rome, Italy and Malouf too lived in Tuscany, Italy for some years. So there must have been some attachment to the soil. The other two novellas by Malouf Fly Away Peter (1981) and Remembering Babylon (1993) have the Queensland coast as their primary locales. The place of the author’s nativity. He has been to India during the Australia-India New Horizons’ initiative in 1996 which was sponsored by the Australian Government to foster bilateral ties. In an interview published in the Hindu on 17th