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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We are thrilled to share the news that COLD LIGHT by Frank Moorhouse has made the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist. Of the novel, the judges said; 'Frank Moorhouse has brought the intellectual richness and political tensions of post-war Australia to life in unexpected ways. In COLD LIGHT he has created an enduring Australian character and captured a time that still...
We're excited to announce that four Random House authors have been longlisted among 13 nominees for Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize, the 2012 Miles Franklin Award. Our nominated books include: Virginia Duigan for The Precipice Gail Jones for Five Bells Frank Moorhouse for Cold Light Elliot Perlman for The Street Sweeper The...
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Books by Frank Moorhouse
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Cold Light
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/11/2011
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferiss Prize.
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Dark Palace
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/11/2011
The winner of the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award now in paperback...From one of Australia's greatest writers comes the tumultuous companion volume to the acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling triumph, GRAND DAYS.
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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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Loose Living
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 26/10/2011
A book of comic writing that incisively dissects our contemporary New Sensitivities.
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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
A new edition to the Moorhouse Collection.
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Tales of Mystery and Romance
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/09/2008
Another fine edition to the Moorhouse Collection
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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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The Americans, Baby
by Frank MoorhousePublished: 01/02/2008
First published in the early 80s this is 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 seventeen?
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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'Australia's funniest writer' Donald Horne'Australia's funniest writer' The Toronto Star
