Dark Palace
| File:Dark Palace.jpg First edition | |
| Author | Frank Moorhouse |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Random House Australia |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 678 pp |
| ISBN | 9780091836764 (hardcover 1st ed.) |
| OCLC | 247939503 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.M6 D3 2000 |
| Preceded by | Grand Days |
| Followed by | Cold Light |
Dark Palace is a novel by Australian author Frank Moorhouse that won the 2001 Miles Franklin Award.[1] 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 the 1920s, through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II.[2]
Plot
Reviews
- Howe, Renate (December 2001 – January 2002). "Oral Sex and the League of Nations: The Genre of Faction in Grand Days and Dark Palace". Network Review of Books. Perth: Australian Public Intellectual Network. ISSN 1833-0932. Archived from the original (online) on 29 September 2012.
- Porter, Peter (10 March 2002). "How to be good: Dark Palace". The Guardian. London.
Awards
- Miles Franklin Award, 2001: winner[3]
- In 2001 in a press release the administrators of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the State Library Victoria, erroneously named Dark Palace as the winner of that year's award, when in fact the decision had gone to Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang.[4]
Portrait
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 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 was entered in the Archibald Prize 2019. (Oil on Canvas. 2m x 1.5m.)
References
- ↑ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2001". Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Trust Company. 2001. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ Steger, Jason (12 November 2011). "Interview: Frank Moorhouse". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ↑ ""A grand day for a true Australian novel"". The Age, 6 June 2001, p3. ProQuest 363489557. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
- ↑ Patrick Barkham, "Prize fight", The Guardian Australia, 16 October 2001. Retrieved 7 March 2017