Remembering Babylon (1993) is a novel by esteemed Australian writer David Malouf (b. 1934).

Gemmy Fairley is a 13 year old English cabin boy who is washed ashore in far north Queensland. It is the 1840s and Gemmy is taken in by First Nations people.

When, 16 years later, Gemmy moves into the world of white settlers, the settlers see him as not fitting in – he’s not white, but nor is he black. Gemmy may be illiterate and yet he can read the landscape – and the settlers.

Remembering Babylon won the inaugural 1996 International Dublin Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Miles Franklin Award and the Banjo Prize for Fiction.