46-493: Dark Palace is a novel by Australian author Frank Moorhouse that won the 2001 Miles Franklin Award . The novel forms the second part of the author's Edith Trilogy , following Grand Days (1993) and preceding Cold Light (2011). The trilogy is a fictional account of the League of Nations ; it traces the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in
92-507: A think-tank called Wining and Dining . During the researching and writing of his League of Nations novels—the 'Edith Trilogy' (1989–2011)—he lived in Besançon , France (close to Geneva), Washington D.C., Cambridge, and Canberra. To mark his 80th birthday, Prof. Wei Cheng (husband of his niece, Karin Moorhouse) painted his portrait. The oil painting, a tribute to his Edith Trilogy, now hangs in
138-679: A degree. After leaving school, Moorhouse began his career as a copy boy and then trained as a cadet journalist on the Daily Telegraph (1955–1957). He then worked as a reporter and editor on country newspapers during the years 1958–1962; the Wagga Wagga Advertiser as a reporter, the Riverina Express as reporter, and the Lockhart Review as editor. He returned to Sydney to become an administrator and tutor in media studies for
184-456: A fundamental role in the evolution of copyright law in Australia in the case University of New South Wales v Moorhouse . Moorhouse also wrote and lectured on the way communication and the control of communication has been developing and the relationship of creative professionals to the economy and to the political system. He was active in the defence of freedom of expression and in analysis of
230-739: A library. Nowra has a growing tourist industry, especially in the summer months, when visitors (mostly from Sydney and Canberra) flock to the beaches to enjoy swimming, surfing, fishing, shopping, and relaxing in the restaurants and cafés. Nowra sits in the Shoalhaven region, where there are several vineyards. Nowra has three public high schools: Nowra High School , Shoalhaven High School and Bomaderry High School . There are also several non-government schools , three of which are religiously affiliated: The district also has an independent school of special assistance. The Shoalhaven River College commenced classes in 2019 and enrols 60 students in years 9-12 in
276-504: A new career in the Australian Department of External Affairs ( Cold Light ). A portrait of Frank Moorhouse entitled, "Uncle Frank's Dark Palace" was painted by Prof Wei Cheng (his nephew by marriage), to mark the writer's 80th birthday. Full of symbolism, the huge portrait references the trilogy, “ Grand Days " with his favourite martini in reach; a copy of the book "Dark Palace;" while the cold light reflection on his face from
322-630: A new venue at the South Nowra Soccer Complex. The Shoalhaven Tigers represent the area in the New South Wales State Basketball League and have won several championships from 1988 until 2007. Archer was an Australian thoroughbred racehorse trained in the Nowra area who won the first and the second Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862. He won both Cups by a significant margin. Archer is one of only five horses to have won
368-522: A significant amount of state-owned forest land. It is also an increasingly popular retirement and leisure area for people from Canberra and Sydney. The naval air station HMAS Albatross is located about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south-west of Nowra. Prior to European arrival, the part of the Nowra region south of the Shoalhaven river was inhabited by the Wandi-Wandandian tribe of the Yuin nation, while
414-482: A sometimes turbulent bisexual life shaped by his own androgyny , some of which is chronicled in his book Martini: A Memoir (Random House 2005). Moorhouse lived alone in Potts Point , Sydney. Early in his career he committed himself to a philosophy of personal candour, stating that there was no question a person could ask of him to which he would not try to give an honest answer. In his public commentary he questioned
460-773: 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 , for which Moorhouse also wrote
506-505: 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 . Moorhouse
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#1732855032178552-516: Is located 160 kilometres (99 mi) south-southwest of the state capital of Sydney (about 120 kilometres (75 mi) as the crow flies ). As of the 2021 census, Nowra has an estimated population of 22,584. Situated in the southern reaches of the Sydney basin , Nowra is the seat and commercial centre of the City of Shoalhaven . The region around Nowra is a farming community with a thriving dairy industry and
598-580: Is moderately high (averaging 1,026.1 mm (40.40 in)), and is spread across 86.7 precipitation days (over 1.0 mm (0.039 in)). Due to its position on the leeward side of the Great Dividing Range , Nowra experiences a foehn effect , particularly in late winter and spring. The town experiences 99.6 clear days and 127.4 cloudy days per annum. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 45.6 °C (114.1 °F) on 21 December 2019 to −0.9 °C (30.4 °F) on 24 August 2002. According to
644-646: Is now listed on the Register of the National Estate . Nowra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Along the north of Nowra is the Shoalhaven River , which formerly hosted the Australian National wakeboarding championships and is a popular fishing location. The Nowra Bridge connects it to North Nowra and Bomaderry . The Shoalhaven River is a saltwater river , although it does not flow into
690-793: Is played by two clubs from the Shoalhaven area, with the Bomaderry Tigers playing at Artie Smith Oval. Further south, the Bay and Basin Bombers play at the Leisure Centre at Vincentia. These two clubs are both members of the South Coast AFL , fielding junior and senior teams. The Shoalhaven Mariners were established in 2006 and represent the area in the sport of baseball. The team plays home matches out of Fred Finch Park in Berkeley , Wollongong . Baseball has
736-514: Is reunited with her former lover, a cross-dressing Englishman. Returning on leave to Australia, Berry finds she now has little in common with her homeland, after her years of moving in European diplomatic circles. She remains with the Secretary-General's Office at the half-empty Palais des Nations throughout World War II, while a skeleton Secretariat attempts to continue the peacetime functions of
782-720: The Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through writing. Moorhouse was conferred with a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Griffith University . In 2009, Moorhouse was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz . Moorhouse was conferred a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of Sydney, and Doctor of the University by Griffith University. The writer in
828-588: The Royal Automobile Club of Australia . It is one of just three known portraits of Frank, the other two painted by the late Adam Cullen . Moorhouse died at a hospital in Sydney on 26 June 2022 at the age of 83. He is survived by his two brothers, Owen (born 1928) and Arthur (born 1932). In 1985, Moorhouse was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to Australian literature; and in 2001 he received
874-644: The Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital , which is a hub for oncology services, and Nowra Private Hospital. The four major codes of football in Australia are all popular in the Nowra area. Rugby league was traditionally represented by the Nowra Warriors and Bomaderry Swamp Rats , however, at the end of 2007 these teams merged to form the Shoalhaven Jets Rugby League Football Club. Other rugby league teams in
920-612: The Workers' Educational Association (WEA) and later became editor of the WEA magazine The Highway (1963–1965). He worked as a trade union organiser for the Australian Journalists' Association and as part-time editor of The Australian Worker newspaper of the AWU —a union representing shearers, drovers , and other rural workers—the oldest trade union newspaper in Australia (1964). In 1966, he
966-456: The dairy industry . Both his parents were active leaders in the community. Moorhouse was a constant reader from an early age and often spoke of his desire to be a writer after reading Alice in Wonderland while bedridden for months from a serious accident at the age of twelve. The book was given to him by his sister-in-law, Muriel Moorhouse (nee Lewis,) on her first-ever visit to Nowra to meet
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#17328550321781012-553: The 1920s, through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II. A direct sequel to Grand Days and beginning in 1931, the novel traces the private and public lives of an Australian woman Edith Campbell Berry, during her final years as an official of the League of Nations based in Geneva. Berry's crumbling marriage parallels the futility of the League's attempts at negotiated disarmament, though she
1058-556: The 1970s, also writing essays, short stories, journalism and film, radio, and TV scripts. During his early career he developed a narrative structure which he has described as the 'discontinuous narrative'. He lived for many years in Balmain where, together with Clive James , Germaine Greer , and Robert Hughes , he associated with the Sydney Push —an anarchistic movement that championed freedom of speech and sexual liberation. In 1975 he played
1104-417: The 2021 census, Nowra has a population of 22,584. This covers suburbs only south of the Shoalhaven River . The population is slightly younger than the state and country as a whole, with an average age of 37 compared to 38 for both Australia and New South Wales. However, the population is bimodally distributed , with a larger percentage of children and the elderly than the state and national averages. 79.7% of
1150-399: The League. In 1945 Berry accompanies a delegation of senior League officials to San Francisco, in the expectation that they will all have key roles to play in the newly established United Nations. To her humiliation and anger they are excluded from any involvement in the setting up of the new organization. The League itself is dissolved a few months later and Berry moves to Canberra, aspiring to
1196-575: The Melbourne Cup on two or more occasions, and one of only four horses to have won two successive Cups. Nowra Coaches operates services from Nowra to Bomaderry , Huskisson , Vincentia and Jervis Bay . Shoal Bus operates services from Nowra to Berry , Gerringong and Sussex Inlet . Premier Motor Service operates express services along the Princes Highway from Sydney to Eden that call at Nowra. Nowra has no direct rail connection, but
1242-707: The Moorhouse family. "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 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 included 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
1288-581: 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
1334-829: The Shoalhaven area include the St Georges Basin Dragons, Culburra Dolphins, Sussex Inlet Panthers and Berry Magpies, all of whom source some of their players from Nowra. All of these clubs compete in the Group 7 Rugby League competition. Rugby union is represented by the Shoalhaven Rugby Club, who play out of Rugby Park in South Nowra. The club won the 2008 premiership in the Illawarra district competition, and has produced international and provincial players such as Andrew Walker and Alex Kanaar . Australian rules football
1380-522: The computer screen symbolises the third and final book in the trilogy, " Cold Light ." The initial sitting for the portrait was done in the library of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia in Sydney, where he sat in a favoured corner of the Club which is reflected in the painting's background. For it was in RACA where he wrote for a time, while a resident of the club. He was a member of RACA for 32 years. The portrait
1426-473: The issues affecting it and in the 1970s was arrested and prosecuted on a couple of occasions while campaigning against censorship. He was in turns the chairman, a director, and one of the founding group of the Australia Copyright Agency (CAL) , which was set up by publishers and authors to coordinate the use of copyright and which now distributes millions of dollars annually to Australian writers. He
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1472-518: The journalist Wendy James, to him during her time as a student in Nowra . She was deeply unhappy at their unauthorised publication and at the suggestion that she had had an affair with one of her teachers. James requested that any monies earned from the book's publication be donated to charity, suggesting that charities which aid children affected by AIDS would be suitable recipients. Moorhouse offered to return 20–30 letters to James but refused to apologise for
1518-526: The mainstream curriculum. There are seven public primary schools in the Nowra area: East Nowra Public School, Nowra Public School, Bomaderry Public School, Illaroo Road Public School, North Nowra Public School, Nowra Hill Public School, and Terara Public School. The University of Wollongong has a campus in Nowra, and there is a campus of TAFE NSW Illawarra Institute in Bomaderry. There are two hospitals in Nowra:
1564-401: The notion of separation of public and private life and the concept of privacy. Throughout his life he frequently voyaged alone on eight-day, map-and-compass, off-trail treks into wilderness areas. Right up until his death he still had his backpack ready, saying he would like to go on one last hike. He was also a gourmet with a special passion for oysters . He once said that he was a member of
1610-469: The passages of the book dealing with the affair with the teacher saying, "Nowhere in the book is it seriously suggested that the ex-wife – not that it's purely Wendy – ever had an affair with her teacher. This idea exists only in the mind of the character – of the demented narrator-author." Nowra Nowra ( / n aʊər ə / ) is a city in the South Coast region of New South Wales , Australia. It
1656-439: The people of Australia in 1993 along with an adjoining property that had been previously owned by Boyd's brother-in-law, the equally famous Australian artist Sidney Nolan . Bundanon began as a single-storey weatherboard structure built around 1840. In 1866, a two-storey sandstone house, made of locally quarried stone, was built immediately in front of the original weatherboard house. The sandstone house features timber verandas and
1702-572: The population were born in Australia and 82.1% speak only English at home, both above the state and national averages. Nowra has a lower level of tertiary education than typical for the state and nation. Only 15% of the population of Nowra hold a tertiary qualification, compared to 23.3% of Australia and 23.8% of New South Wales. The top five reported ancestries in Nowra at the 2021 census were Australian (40.9%), English (37.7%), Australian Aboriginal (10%), Irish (9.5%), and Scottish (8.3%). Most (63%) people had both parents born in Australia, higher than
1748-568: The region north of Shoalhaven was inhabited by the Dharawal people. The name Nowra, originally written by Europeans as 'nou-woo-ro' (pronounced Nowa Nowa by the Indigenous Australians of the area), is an Aboriginal word for the black cockatoo . Circa 1824, ex-convict Mary Reibey applied for a land grant in the Burrier area, on the southern side of the Shoalhaven River . The Nowra township
1794-476: The screenplay, was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival ; although it did not receive an award. Martini: A Memoir was published in 2005. Part autobiography , part history of the martini , the book's minimal plot involves deep conversations about the cocktail between the author and his martini-obsessed friend, V.I. Voltz, a character based on Moorhouse's friend, screenwriter Steven Katz . The book includes love letters written by Moorhouse's ex-wife,
1840-867: The sea. The Shoalhaven River meets the sea through the canal that joins the Shoalhaven and Crookhaven Rivers, which was dug by convicts under the direction of local entrepreneur and pioneer Alexander Berry . Nowra possesses a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen: Cfa), with very warm, wet summers and mild, relatively dry winters. Compared with nearby Wollongong and Kiama which have an oceanic climate , Nowra has slightly warmer summers due to its inland location, thus qualifying it as humid subtropical climate . Average maxima vary from 27.6 °C (81.7 °F) in January to 16.8 °C (62.2 °F) in July, while average minima fluctuate between 16.8 °C (62.2 °F) in January and 6.8 °C (44.2 °F) in July. Annual precipitation
1886-534: The state and national averages. The population of the suburb of Nowra (central Nowra) at the 2021 census was 9,956. The Australian Bureau of statistics also recognises a larger built-up area including suburbs north of the Shoalhaven, North Nowra-Bomaderry, which had a population of 16,098 at the 2021 census. Nowra Town Hall was built in 1948 and is in the Central Business District. This district contains many services, including banks, health services and
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1932-844: Was a past president of the Australian Society of Authors and a member of the Australian Press Council . He was also an organiser for the Australian Journalists' Association . Moorhouse was appointed a member of the Sydney PEN eminent writers panel in 2005. He participated in Australian and overseas conferences in arts, communication and related areas and served as a guest lecturer and writer-in-residence at sundry Australian and overseas universities. Moorhouse married his high-school girlfriend Wendy Halloway in 1959, but they separated four years later, having no children. Thereafter he led
1978-437: Was born in Nowra, New South Wales , the youngest of three boys, to a New Zealand-born father, Frank Osborne Moorhouse, OAM, and mother, Purthanry Thanes Mary Moorhouse (nee Cutts), OAM. His mother was a direct descendant of John Boden Yeates (1807-1861), a British convict transported to Australia in 1837. His father was an inventor of agricultural machinery who, with his wife, established a factory in Nowra to make machinery for
2024-564: Was briefly editor of the country newspaper The Boorowa News . At eighteen, he published his first short story, The Young Girl and the American Sailor , in Southerly magazine and this was followed by publication of early stories in Meanjin , Overland , Quadrant , Westerly , and other Australian literary magazines. The author of 18 books, Moorhouse became a full-time fiction writer during
2070-626: Was entered in the Archibald Prize 2019. (Oil on Canvas. 2m x 1.5m.) Frank Moorhouse Frank Thomas Moorhouse AM (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) 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
2116-408: Was officially recognised in 1852. Less than ten years later, in 1861, a postal service was established. In 1861, the racehorse Archer , which was trained in Nowra by Etienne de Mestre , won the first Melbourne Cup . Nowra was declared a town in 1885 and a city in 1979. A major landmark in the area is the house Bundanon , which renowned Australian artist Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne donated to
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