Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse has written fiction, memoir, non-fiction, screenplays and essays, and has edited many collections of writing. His awards include The Age Book of the Year and the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal (Forty-Seventeen, 1988), the Miles Franklin Award (Dark Palace, 2000), the Adelaide Festival National Prize for Fiction (Grand Days, 1994), and the National Award for Fiction (The Electrical Experience, 1975). His latest novel is Cold Light (2011). (Photograph by Kylie Melinda Smith.)

‘Blase’s rules and protocol for the doing of arts festivals’ by Frank Moorhouse

March 1988, no. 98 • 01 March 1988

Regional Courtesies 1 When you go to the Salamanca Festival in Hobart remember to take a suitcase of factory-made clothing and household items. The migration of weavers, potters, glassblowers, and carvers down to Tasmania means that the people down there have only craft-made things to wear and to eat with and will kill to get their hands on a factory-made, perfectly symmetrical, cup and s ... (read more)