Frank Moorhouse

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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 wrote 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 undertook 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.

Articles

Effeminacy, mateship, love

Non-fictionTHIS YEAR – 2017 – is the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Australian writer Henry Lawson. Lawson scholar Paul Eggert, in his book Biography Of A Book: Henry Lawson’s While The Billy Boils (Penn State University Press,...

The dark conundrum

EssayTO WRITE ABOUT the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation at length, when it is an agency which shields itself from scrutiny and is licensed to practice deception is a fairly tough assignment – writing about the unknowable – but these...

The writer in a time of terror

EssayWinner, The 2007 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Social Equity JournalismWinner, 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, The Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public DebateWinner, 2007 PEN Keneally AwardIN MY TIME as a writer, I have lived...

The painter and the writer

EssayJOANNA LOGUE HAS been responding to the landscape around her home, Essington Park, near Oberon on the western slopes of NSW, for about seven years. She has made earlier work from the urbanscapes and landscapes of her travels –...

Manifesto for the imagination

EssayThese Arts, in their highest province, are addressed ... to the desires of the mind ... impatient of being circumscribed and pent up by the world which is about us– Joshua Reynolds, Discourse XIII (1723-1792) BECAUSE OF THE Henson controversy,...

Did Eros remember her name?

FictionIT WAS AT the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna that Edith noticed that Ian was behaving in a curious way, bending down as if looking at the showcase of liturgical objects but, in fact, she realised, looking at her through the...

Beyond stigma

Essay'Nothing is as revolutionary as candour.' – Robert Desnos (French surrealist from the 1930s) I THINK WE would agree – in some hazy way – that privacy as a value, and behaviour surrounding the idea of privacy, are considered fundamental...

If you know Bourke you know Australia

Memoir'When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet, And across the distant timber you can see the flowing heat; When your head is hot and aching, and the shadeless plain is wide, And it's fifteen miles...

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