Frank Moorhouse
Frank Thomas Moorhouse AM (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.
Frank Moorhouse AM | |
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Moorhouse in 2011 | |
| Born | Frank Thomas Moorhouse 21 December 1938 Nowra, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 26 June 2022 (aged 83) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, novelist, screenwriter |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1956–2022 |
| Literary movement | Balmain writer of the Sydney Push |
| Years active | 1956–2022 |
| Notable works | Dark Palace (2000) |
| Spouse |
Wendy Halloway
(m. 1959; sep. 1963) |
Moorhouse is best known for having won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Dark Palace 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.