Frank Moorhouse

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Frank Moorhouse
Born	December 21, 1938 Nowra, NSW,
Occupation	Journalist; Short story writer; Novelist
Nationality	Australian
Writing period	1970s-

Frank Moorhouse (born 21 December 1938 in Nowra, New South Wales) is an Australian writer of short stories, screenplays and novels.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Literary significance 3 Bibliography 3.1 Short stories (or 'discontinuous narratives') 3.2 Novels 3.3 Humour and Memoir 3.4 Anthologies 4 Scripts for films 4.1 Short films 4.2 Feature films 4.3 Docudrama 5 References 6 External links

[edit] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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[edit] 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.

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

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Short 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)

[edit] Novels

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

[edit] Humour and Memoir

• Room Service (1985)
• Late Shows (1990)
• Loose Living (1995)
• Inspector-General of Misconception: Despatches from the Office (2002)
• Martini: A Memoir (2005)

[edit] Anthologies

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

[edit] Scripts for films

[edit] Short films

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

[edit] Feature films

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

[edit] Docudrama

• Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983)

[edit] References

• Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand (Ed.) (1999). The Oxford companion to Australian film. Melbourne, Australia ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553797-1. 

[edit] External links

• Find Frank Moorhouse's work in Libraries Australia - click on the name 'Heading' to find all related works in 800+ Australian library collections
• Listen to Frank Moorhouse in a National Museum of Australia conversation about history and fiction