Frank Moorhouse
Novelist, Author
1938 –
Who is Frank Moorhouse?
Frank Moorhouse AM is an Australian writer. He has won major Australian 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 also translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, and Swedish.
Moorhouse is perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.
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- Born
- Dec 21, 1938
Nowra - Also known as
- Frank Thomas Moorhouse
- Frank Moorhouse AM
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Wendy Halloway
(1959 - 1963)
- Wendy Halloway
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Lived in
- New South Wales
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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