Frank Moorhouse notable work Dark Palace
Literary awards
1975 National Award for Fiction winner: The electrical experience
1988 The Age Book of the Year Award winner: Forty-seventeen won
1988 Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal: Forty-seventeen
1994 Adelaide Festival National Prize for Fiction winner: Grand Days
2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner: Dark Palace, published in 2000.
2012 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction winner: Cold Light
2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist: Cold LightThe writer in a time of terror appeared in Griffith Review and won the 2007 Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the award for Social Equity Journalism in The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.The Coca-Cola Kid, a romantic comedy film based on Moorhouse's short stories in The Americans, Baby, and The Electrical Experience, where Moorhouse also wrote the screenplay, was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival; although did not receive an award.Novels and novellas
Conference-ville. Sydney, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. 1976. ISBN 978-0-207-13421-0.
Forty-seventeen. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. 1988. ISBN 978-0-01-400651-9.
Grand Days. Chippendale, New South Wales: Pan Macmillan. 1993. ISBN 978-0-7329-0768-6.
Dark Palace (2000) Random House, 678pp
Cold Light (2011) Random House
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