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Frank Moorehouse
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IdentifierUMA-AG-000000308Place of BirthNowra, New South WalesPlace of DeathSydney, New South WalesGenderMaleHistoryFrank Thomas Moorhouse AM was an Australian writer who won major 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 translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian and Swedish.
Moorhouse is best known for having won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Dark Palace which, together with Grand Days and Cold Light, forms the "Edith Trilogy"—a fictional account of the League of Nations—which traces the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s and becomes involved in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.
IdentifierUMA-AG-000000308Place of BirthNowra, New South WalesPlace of DeathSydney, New South WalesGenderMaleHistoryFrank Thomas Moorhouse AM was an Australian writer who won major 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 translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian and Swedish.Moorhouse is best known for having won the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Dark Palace which, together with Grand Days and Cold Light, forms the "Edith Trilogy"—a fictional account of the League of Nations—which traces the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s and becomes involved in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.
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Date21 December 1938-26 June 2022
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Source of DescriptionFrank Moorehouse
Frank Moorehouse (21 December 1938-26 June 2022), [UMA-AG-000000308]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 30/04/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/583839