Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse has written twelve books of fiction and one non-fiction book. He has won a number of literary prizes including the 1989 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal.

Forty-Seventeen 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 of the Palais des Nations novels, won the SA Premier’s Award for Fiction.

Dark Palace won the 2001 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 Moorhouse was made a member of the Order of Australia for Services to Literature in 1985. Previous fellowships include: Woodrow Wilson Scholar, Library of Congress (1994), Senior Fulbright Fellow, USA (1994), Colin Johnston Scholar, University of Sydney (1995-1996) and Writer-in-Residence, King's College Cambridge (1999).

His books have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Serbian, Swedish, Polish and Spanish.

Contact: Curtis Brown Australia

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