Frank Moorhouse

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birthdate = December 21, 1938
birthplace = Nowra, NSW,
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occupation = Journalist; Short story writer; Novelist
nationality = Australian
period = 1970s-
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Frank Moorhouse (born 21 December 1938 in Nowra, New South Wales) is an Australian writer of short stories, screenplays and novels.

Biography

During the 1960s, Moorhouse was associated with the Sydney Push — a progressive group of artists, writers and intellectuals. He was also a member of the WEA Film Study Group with such notable people as John Flaus, Michael Thornhill and Ken Quinnell. After some time working for rural NSW newspapers, Moorhouse moved to the bohemian inner-Sydney suburb of Balmain, which was to become a central setting of much of his work.

He announced at Sydney's Customs House Library in late 2006 that he is working on the third volume of his League of Nations series.Fact|date=May 2007

Literary significance

"Forty-Seventeen" (1988) which won The Age Book of the Year Award and the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal.

"Dark Palace" (2000) won the Miles Franklin Award.

" [http://www3.griffith.edu.au/01/griffithreview/get_content_file.php?id=1323 The writer in a time of terror] " appearing in Griffith Review Edition 14: The Trouble With Paradise (2007) won the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards as well as the award for Social Equity Journalism in The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism

Bibliography

hort stories (or 'discontinuous narratives')

* "Futility and Other Animals" (1969)
* "The Americans, Baby' (1972)
* "The Electrical Experience" (1974)
* "Tales of Mystery and Romance" (1977)
* "The Everlasting Secret Family" (1980)

Novels

* "Conference-ville" (a novella, 1976)
* "Forty-Seventeen" (1988)
* "Grand Days" (1993)
* "Dark Palace" (2000)

Humour and Memoir

* "Room Service" (1985)
* "Late Shows" (1990)
* "Loose Living" (1995)
* "" (2002)
* "" (2005)

Anthologies

* "Coast to Coast" (1973)
* "Days of Wine and Rage" (1980)
* "The State of the Art"
* "Fictions 88"
* "Best Australian Stories" (2004 and 2005)

cripts for films

hort films

* "The American Poet's Visit" (1969)
* "The Girl from the Family of Man" (1970)
* "The Machine Gun" (1971).

Feature films

* "The American Poet's Visit" (1969)
* "The Girl from the Family of Man" (1970)
* "The Machine Gun" (1971)
* "Between Wars" (1974)
* "The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris" (1980)
* "The Coca-Cola Kid" (1985)
* "The Ever-Lasting Secret Family" (1988)

Docudrama

* "Who Killed Baby Azaria?" (1983)

References

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External links

* [http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35123956 Find Frank Moorhouse's work in Libraries Australia] - click on the name 'Heading' to find all related works in 800+ Australian library collections
* [http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/historical_imagination_series/frank_moorhouse_and_dr_lenore_coltheart/ Listen to Frank Moorhouse in a National Museum of Australia conversation about history and fiction]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Moorhouse,%20Frank Frank Moorhouse at Random House Australia]