Career
He has been a columnist for and occasional contributor to a range of Australian
newspapers, magazines and quarterly journals and overseas publications
and in 1985 was made a member of the Order of Australia for Services to
Literature. He has won a number of literary prizes including the
Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal, The National Award for
Fiction, Age Book of the Year and the Henry Lawson National Short Story
Prize. Over the past ten years Frank Moorhouse has lived away from
Australia, including a couple of years spent in France and Geneva,
where he worked on two novels set at the League of Nations. That project
involved considerable research into the archives of the League of
Nations in Geneva, the Library of Congress, Washington and the National
Library of Australia. Frank Moorhouse has been writer-in-residence
at a number of Australian Universities (University of Sydney, The
University of Melbourne and Griffith University) and has been Visiting
Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, (2002),
writer-in-residence at Cambridge University, UK (1999) and is a former
senior Fullbright Fellow, USA (1994–95). In 1997 Frank Moorhouse was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Griffith University.