Frank Moorhouse
| Frank Moorhouse AM | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frank Thomas Moorhouse 21 December 1938 Nowra, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, novelist, screenwriter |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1970s- |
| Literary movement | Balmain writer |
| Notable works | Dark Palace (2000) |
| Spouse | Wendy Halloway (1959–1963) |
Frank Moorhouse AM (born 21 December 1938 in Nowra, New South Wales) is an Australian writer. He has won major Australian 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 also translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, and Swedish.
Moorhouse is perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.
Frank Thomas Moorhouse was born in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia, to a father of British ethnicity and a mother who was a third-generation Australian of British convict descent. His father was an inventor of agricultural machinery who, together with his wife, established a factory in Nowra to make machinery for the dairy industry.
Moorhouse was a constant reader from an early age and decided to be a writer after reading Alice in Wonderland while bed-ridden for months from a serious accident when he was 12: "After experiencing the magic of this book, I wanted to be the magician who made the magic."
Moorhouse's infant and primary schooling was at Nowra Central and his secondary schooling at Wollongong Secondary Junior Technical (WSJT) High School to the Intermediate Certificate, and Nowra High School to Leaving Certificate. His military service includes army school cadets for two years at WSJT including signals specialist course and cadet officer course. He completed his compulsory national military service of three months basic training and three years part-time in the Reserve Army (infantry) in the University of Sydney Regiment and in the Riverina Regiment, Wagga Wagga (1957–1960). He studied units of undergraduate political science, Australian history, English and journalism – law, history and practice, at the University of Queensland as an external student while working as a cadet newspaper journalist in Sydney and as a journalist in Wagga Wagga, without completing a degree.
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