For the marine biologist, see Frank William Moorhouse.
Frank Moorhouse
AM
Moorhouse in 2011
Born
Frank Thomas Moorhouse (1938-12-21)21 December 1938 Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
Died
26 June 2022(2022-06-26) (aged 83) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Journalist, writer, novelist, screenwriter
Nationality
Australian
Period
1956–2022
Literary movement
Balmain writer[1] of the Sydney Push
Years active
1956–2022
Notable works
Dark Palace (2000)
Spouse
Wendy Halloway
(m. 1959; sep. 1963)
Frank Thomas MoorhouseAM (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer who won major national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France and the United States, and translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian and Swedish.
Moorhouse is best known for having won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Dark Palace[2] which, together with Grand Days and Cold Light, forms the "Edith Trilogy"—a fictional account of the League of Nations—which traces the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s and becomes involved in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.[3]
^"Contributors: Frank Moorhouse". Griffith Review. Griffith University. 2013. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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^Steger, Jason (12 November 2011). "Interview: Frank Moorhouse". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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