Frank Moorhouse
Frank Moorhouse was born in the coastal town of Nowra, NSW. He worked as an editor of small-town newspapers and as an administrator and in the 1970s became a full-time writer. He has written fiction, non fiction, screenplays and essays and edited many collections of writing. Forty Seventeen was given a laudatory full-page review by Angela Carter in the New York Times and was named Book of the Year by the Age and 'moral winner' of the Booker Prize by the London magazine Blitz. Grand Days, the first novel in The Edith Trilogy, won the SA Premier's Award for Fiction. Dark Palace won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Age Book of the Year Award. Frank has undertaken numerous fellowships and his work has been translated into several languages. He was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1985 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Griffith University in 1997.
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Congratulations to Gail Jones (FIVE BELLS), Frank Moorhouse (COLD LIGHT) and Elliot Perlman (THE STREET SWEEPER), all Random House Australia authors who have been nominated for the 2013 IMPAC Award longlist.
Frank Moorhouse Wins Queensland Literary Award For Fiction
by Random House Australia on 5 September 2012
Last night the inaugural Queensland Literary Awards were held and we are thrilled to report that Frank Moorhouse won the major fiction prize of the night for COLD LIGHT! Despite there being no prize money attached, Frank deemed the Queensland Literary Awards, 'the most noble prize of the year’. We also had some great books shortlisted, Nick Earls for THE FIX and...
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Books by Frank Moorhouse
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The Commune Does Not Want You
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/03/2013
'Is there a commune for people who do not fit very well into communes?'
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The Story of the Knife
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/03/2013
All things pass. Sex, love, relationships or is that just folk fatalism?
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Cold Light
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/11/2012
Winner of the Queensland Literary Award. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferis Prize.
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The Commune Does Not Want You (Storycuts)
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/10/2012
'Is there a commune for people who do not fit very well into communes?'
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The Story of the Knife (Storycuts)
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/10/2012
All things pass. Sex, love, relationships or is that just folk fatalism?
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Grand Days
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/11/2011
Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be.
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Lateshows
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 02/02/2009
Our Hero explores contemporary protocols - of family, food and art - looks at the tragic evanescence of technology and investigates meal reform and the science of life.
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Loose Living
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 02/02/2009
A book of comic writing that incisively dissects our contemporary New Sensitivities.
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Conference-ville
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/09/2008
Entertaining and always surprising stories from Frank Moorhouse.
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Tales of Mystery and Romance
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/09/2008
Travel, sex, death and love - a most surprising collection of stories.
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The Everlasting Secret Family
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/09/2008
‘Sometimes the way they misunderstood each other was more interesting than what they'd meant to say.'
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Futility and Other Animals
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/02/2008
Stories of modern, urban tribes.
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The Americans, Baby
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/02/2008
A timeless collection of stories exploring physical and psychological boundaries, some tentatively and others with vigour.
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The Electrical Experience
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/02/2008
T. George McDowell believes in getting the job done.
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Days of Wine and Rage
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 03/09/2007
This was social history - entertaining, fascinating and informing - in the making.
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Forty-Seventeen
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 03/09/2007
What could he tell her now, now that he was forty and she was no longer 17?
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Martini: A Memoir
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 03/09/2007
Acclaimed author Frank Moorhouse considers the world's most elegant and mysterious cocktail whilst also reflecting on his life.
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The Inspector-General of Misconception
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/03/2002
'Australia's funniest writer' Clive James
